Tragedy

This is why I do not drink.
This is why I will wear a watch from now on.
3 guys.
One back on military leave.
They'd been drinking and they were on their way back home. They're stopped because of a train going by. Well one guy has to pee so he gets out, the driver, the one on military leave, laughs for a bit then he opens the door, puts one foot out of the car, and leans his head out and tells his friend to get back in the car cause he could get arrested for indecent exposure and such. Well they're talking and laughin and the car begins to go forward. The driver, who is drunk, accidentally hits the clutch instead of the brake. At the same time, the boy in front of the car runs in front of the car to push it back to stop it from hitting the train.
Boom.
Dead.
Hit by the train.
Gone.
Brain matter is everywhere.
And along the tracks,
shining in the moonlight,
pieces of his watch.
Smashed by the train.
It will tick no more.
He will breathe no more.
Tragedy.
I will wear a watch from now on to remind me of the reasons I do not drink, and in honor of the driver, who must live with those images forever etched in his memory, and the victim. If anyone asks me why I wear a watch, this is what I'll tell them.
Tragedy.