The witness stares

The pain is there

The car the hit the death

The never ending regret

Hours pass everyone has heard

The news is proclaimed the audience disturbed

A joyous occasion turned into terror

The smiling faces turned ever grayer

The death tolls grow in hospital beds

On the streets others dead

I the witness hear there cries

My life went on to their good bye

I wonder why I lived and not they

I wonder if reversed what they would say

Yet to that I'll never know

For those souls have joined home

Yet I exist and for what to say

That I witness a tortured played

A tragic accident or attack

The memory my mind racks

Yet I have to let it go of the strangers killed

The lives that stilled

So I tell my story

The vague and unworthy

The witness of a stranger's death

The witness of a not forgotten last breath.

That was sad to see

That of tragedy