Night and Daymare

I don’t know from where I was coming

I had no inkling as to where I was going

All I knew was my lips were humming

Some crestfallen lamentations of my own doing

I distinctly remember it was on the highway

Not a road cutting thru the city

I was also cognizant of the emotions that outweigh

Bearing heavy on mind, were singing a melancholic ditty

I didn’t care about the speed

I brushed Laggard trucks and lesser cars aside,

However there was one SUV belonging to a similar breed

Who in close heels for sometime drew up by my side

After a gutsy duel of driving skills

I gave in, ahead sped the more robust car

The spirited battle gave me the thrills and frills

But not the lead, Close but no cigar

A good fifty feet now separated the vehicular masses

Making peace with the undoubtedly decisive winner

I snuck behind comfortably tailgating the master

Closely monitoring the gap, determined not to extend the lead

Ten minutes passed without much activity

To my ruminations, I quickly came away

With both motorists in control of the situation, displaying gritty

Resolve to not yield or concede any further leeway

According the knackered accelerator

A deserved pause, ensconced in cruise mode

I flung my worries to be taken care of sometime later

Bombinating the interiors with buzzing tunes of Depeche Mode

When the detestable competitor cocked-a-snook

Suddenly hard-braking totally disloyal

To the enshrined rubric of the freeway driving rule book

To my horror I found myself at the receiving end of the brake’s betrayal

There wasn’t time to probe into the incomprehensibility

The gap narrowed! I began to panic

Forty feet, I had to do something with agility

To conjure up something from thin air, my flailing hands began to fossick

Thirty feet! The car ahead was coming to a stop

I frantically searched for alternatives

Twenty Feet, Ten feet, I squealed a hapless yaup

I had to trigger the last-gasp Putative

Option, the hold hand break

Five feet away! I pull

Too late perhaps, too slow on the uptake

The car crashed, and I was lifted into a mazy lull

Oh what a nightmare! My eyes blued into pallor

I could hear the blasting of my palpitating heart

As I sat up on my bed recoiling with unmitigable horror

Only to realize day and night when viewed athwart

Presented the same situation. One being nightmares

The other when looked at the unavoidable circumstance

I had woven myself into, were inextricable daymares

Sheer acts of my own doing, and blameless happenstance