I wish...

I wish

I'd driven slower

On the roads slick with frost

As pieces of winter hammered my windshield

I wish

I'd caught a glimpse

Of the tree branch falling

I wish

The bony hands

Hadn't jerked me out of the flaming car

I wish

They hadn't taken me

Hadn't sunk their claws into my skin

I wish

I was

Alive

Again.