Protection

Driving to work at 7:00 am, I often get caught behind a school bus as it makes a slow crawl down the road, picking up students bundled in their puffy coats. 

One morning, I stopped with the cars in front of me for a bus coming our way.

A school-aged boy ran across the street

legs a blur like a pinwheel in motion.

He didn’t bother to check that the cars stopped for him.

Some might call that stupidity 

but I admired him 

and us, the drivers, the community, the strangers 

for trusting each other 

to protect the young ones.


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