The image of the bright lights, the speeding car
my best friend running out into the road
the shrieks and screams, the blood, the sirens
the flashing lights, the caution tape, the people yelling
the medics taking him away
The image of all those things flashed over and over again in my mind
They took him away from me
Away from us
Away from the living world
The doors of the ambulance closing and speeding off
Taking all my hope, love, joy and happiness with it
The sound of the sirens fading away
as they rushed to the hospital to try to revive him rang in my head
And just like the sirens, all the life left in the other half of my soul faded too