“Red Light” an imitation of “[bridge, you’re]” by Jeffrey Pethybridge

I found myself drawn to this poem very early on in the reading of this book. This was because the poem was so simple and bare, yet each word carried a great amount of weight to it. The voice is so powerful that I found myself coming back to this poem again and again. I wanted to try that in my own writing.

Red Light

Red light,

you stop

people only until

someone

decides

to

run right through you.