Guilty thoughts

I once hit a dog with my car!
Oooh how devastated I felt...

And to think how the animal might have felt,
for the creature survived the horrific 'thud'.

My heart stopped and the vehicle followed,
for I turned my eyes towards the victim on the road.

Rolling on the ground with painful screams,
as I watched from behind the mirror and glass.

God knows what went through my mind,
as I drove along with a sunken heart.

I had seen such views and I had stomached the horrors,
but it burns your soul when you are the cause.

I wonder still and wish I did,
that I slowed my car more on time.