I don’t know if I even managed to take a second bite
Everything happened so fast after that...
...I’m still trying to piece it all together in my mind.

Bob was still going on about how great his new bumper was....
And I think I remember hearing my boyfriend saying something about “pushing a tree over”
(everything just happened so quick!)

I remember the sharp jerk of the truck as it flew into reverse...
We backed up seventy feet or so,
It was so fast...

I was thrown back into my seat as Bob threw the truck into gear... and floored it.

He was headed right for a patch of trees!
My mind was racing...
...I screamed “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

The scream was shrill.
But it did nothing.
We were still accelerating!

When we hit the trees (3 fair sized ones)
there was this split second where everything just.... paused...
The trees didn’t even budge.
And we were brought to a dead stop.

And then I saw the edge of the roof.
When it was at eye level...
I remember the clear blue sky being a sharp contrast to the rusty metal below...

...Then... a bright flash of red/white/black,
I’ll never be able to describe that hue of colors...
But that image still haunts me to this day.