I Held Her Hand

I held her hand it was all I could do,
her passengers all children were just out of view;
All the pain I caused in that wreck that night,
to this day still wakes me each night with fright.
Her body all torn and covered in blood,
All I could do was lie with her in the mud.

She begged and pleaded for her kids' life,
made me think of my kids and my wife;
I tried to help her but she showed no fear,
how are my children was all I could hear;
I held her hand tight and leaned back to check,
but all three children had died in the wreck.

One child was dead just totally mangled,
the other two lie facing each other twisted & angled;
They had been playing some fun childhood game,
when the back seat was stripped all the way to the frame;
Three small lives taken away in a flash,
wasn't their fault - I caused this crash.

I leaned to the front where she lay,
looking at her I didn't know what to say;
My silence and tears conveyed what I could not,
the way she looked I still have not forgot;
We cried together forever it seemed that night,
Waiting for help to arrive at that horrible site;

It seemed so long this can't be right,
had they missed us - passed us by in the night?
Sirens I hear and red and blue lights aglow,
then she softly said she had to go;
and as her eyes closed and mine filled with tears,
I wish I hadn't drank those beers.