Wednesday, March 4^th, 2020

Yellow Light

Jack’s funeral was held in his hometown, a place I’d never been before. My mind was clouded with sadness as I came over the crest of a hill. Thinking my GPS had gotten me lost, I hardly noticed the traffic light at the bottom had turned yellow. It turned red before I got to the intersection. I had to swerve to miss a truck that would have squashed me like a bug.

“That yellow should have been longer,” I yelled to the steering wheel. ‘Or I should have been paying closer attention,’ I thought. ‘You don’t always get a lot of warning.  Jack didn’t. He relapsed and a few months later he was dead.’ 

Today I’ll remember sometimes Life’s warnings are brief.

2020 Vision ©2017 by Ken Montrose

2020 Vision is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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