AS OF COURSE YOU WERE
golden child soared
got hit
fell, crash-landed
amongst the other scrapyard relics
could have
taken a lifetime; could
have just taken seconds
relativity is critical
to the speed at which others age
indeed, retrospectively,
hurtling down the straight,
throwing yourself
into bends
accelerating out of corners
chewing up
the tarmac
all seems so slow, so laboured,
so back in model T, so
(to back up
a bit
reverse to the point of
our eating the road metaphor)
like you were nibbling your way
through a five course dinner
making a meal
of your life, as
of course you were
golden child soared
suffered much flak damage
the body
can only take so much panelbeating
and not a scratch more
