Safety Poem: “I Could Have Saved a Life That Day”

“I COULD HAVE SAVED A LIFE THAT DAY”

IT WASN’T THAT I DIDN’T CARE

I HAD THE TIME, AND I WAS THERE

BUT I DIDN’T WANT TO SEEM A FOOL

OR ARGUE OVER A SAFETY RULE.

I KNEW HE’D DONE THE JOB BEFORE.

IF I CALLED IT WRONG, HE MIGHT GET SORE.

THE CHANCES DIDN’T SEEM THAT BAD.

I’D DONE THE SAME AND HE KNEW I HAD.

SO I SHOOK MY HEAD AND WALKED ON BY.

HE KNEW THE RISK AS WELL AS I.

HE TOOK THE CHANCE, I CLOSED AN EYE

AND WITH THAT ACT, I LET HIM DIE.

I COULD HAVE SAVED A LIFE THAT DAY.

BUT I CHOSE TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY.

NOW EVERY TIME I SEE HIS WIFE.

I KNOW I COULD HAVE SAVED HIS LIFE.

THE GUILT IS SOMETHINBG I MUST BEAR

BUT IT ISN’T SOMETHING YOU NEED SHARE.

IF YOU SEE A RISK THAT OTHERS TAKE,

THAT PUTS THEIR HEALTH OR LIFE AT STAKE.

THE QUESTION ASKED, OR THING YOU SAY,

COULD HELP THEM LIVE ANOTHER DAY.

IF YOU SEE RISK AND WALK AWAY,

THEN HOPE YOU NEVER HAVE TO SAY.

“I COULD HAVE SAVED A LIFE THAT DAY,

BUT I CHOSE TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY”