Monday February 27 2017  A SAD REALITY

Our son’s family formerly lived in Cottage Grove a couple of houses down from a couple who were recently involved in the fatal accident on Highway 30 in Madison.  Due to a drunk driver speeding on a curve His car became airborne and landed on the car of my son’s former neighbors.  The 37 year old man was killed and his 34 year old wife has been hospitalized in critical condition since the accident two weeks ago.  Saturday she was released from the hospital to join her husband in the morgue.  A young couple’s  hopes and dreams of a bright future with their infant twin boys will never take place.  Instead, the couple will be buried side by side. They were on their way to watch a UW men’s basketball game and they never had the chance to return home. 

Two little baby boys will never remember the adoring looks of their parents, or experience the security and love of their parents holding them again.  I can only imagine the grief of the parents of the young couple who were so senselessly murdered. My heart and my eyes cry for this family as I write this sad saga; so unnecessary, so senseless, and so irrevocable.  And I wonder of the unspoken loss and sorrow their two babies must be going through. 

The young man who caused the accident has been retained in jail since the accident and has now been “tentatively charged with two counts of second-degree reckless homicide, three counts of second degree recklessly endangering safety and one count of reckless driving causing injury.  He has been held at the Dane County Jail since Feb 13.” (Wisconsin State Journal)

There is nothing in the world that can change the outcome of this couple.  Please give consideration as to how you are going to proceed on your journey if you are the driver of a car and choose to have a drink.  Please don’t take a chance with your life or the lives of others.  Make the decision to hand your keys over to a non-drinking driver and promise yourself that you will never get behind the wheel of a car if you have even had one drink.  The sad reality is it will continue to happen.  Not only does it change the future of the accident victims and their families, it changes the future of the murderer as well.  And I hope it is for a very long time.

A drunk driver is just as dangerous as a man wielding a gun shooting into a crowd.  Perhaps the mad-man doesn’t hit anyone with a bullet the first time; it doesn’t mean it won’t happen if he is given another chance.  A drunk driver is just as menacing, except you don’t realize he’s gunning for you.  Why should he be given a second chance for his bullet to make its mark? 

 

A SAD REALITY

Kathleen Martens

February 27, 2017

www.visionsofpoetry.com

 

My heart is heavy

As I hear the story

Of a senseless crime

Oh so gory.

 

A mom and dad

Too soon dead.

Unintentional death

Alcohol fed.

 

Sadness whelms

Deep within

As one funeral planned

To bury best friends.

 

Husband and wife

At the threshold of life,

Now two little babies

Live in plight.

 

I pray God will comfort

Those left behind

And provide the family

New strength to find.

 

That those two little boys

Will be tenderly loved

And someday with know

There’s Heavenly Father above

 

Who watches over them

And holds them close.

And they hopefully will recognize

God’s loving voice.

 

Rarely do I write about such sadness but this hit so close to home.  I think about our grandsons and realize the bond of love that they have had since infancy for their own parents.  Yes, grandparents and other relatives can step in to fill the gap as best they can, but there is just something so special between a close bond between mother and son and father and son. 

Such a tragic loss that happened in Madison this year on the day before Valentine’s Day.  And the sad part is it was only one of such mishaps across the country caused by someone drinking and driving.  Please do not drink and drive.

 

MAY GOD PROTECT EACH OF US AS WE FACE THE ILLS OF OUR SOCIETY.

 

Thank You God that the two little boys of this couple were not in the car on February 13, 2017.

Lord thank You for this day of life I live today.  Let me never take one hour for granted.