<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359484" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Death Comes To Any Age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is one story that makes me shudder<br>And so with care I live each day<br>It is about a mother and a daughter<br>Who went to a mall for her birthday.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mother promised the eight year old<br>For a cellphone as her requested gift, <br>Excited to call her Dad, she was told-<br>As they crossed a street, she ran so swift.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The daughter had crossed ahead and saw<br>That her mother was left at the other side<br>And so like a child she ran back although<br>The lights had changed for the street so wide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lights turned to green and it was a 'go'<br>As all vehicles started to go running<br>Cars and trucks speeding traffic flow<br>Not seeing the small child who was just then crossing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The truck driver saw her but it was too late<br>The brakes did not have the time to hold<br>The little girl met her untimely fate<br>As the truck ran over that eight-year-old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hysterical mother went into shock<br>Seeing her child's brains on the pavement<br>In grief she almost had a heart attack<br>Screamed in tears all her anguished lament.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lesson here that Death teaches us all<br>One may be eighty or be eight-year-old<br>But when He chooses to give us a call<br>With Him, there's no young and there's no old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>This is a true story that happened in our city in front of a big mall. All who witnessed the tragedy were affected by it.<br>-<br>February 3,2010<br>Philippines</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Copyright Cynthia Buhain-Baello</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cynthia+Buhain-Baello">Cynthia Buhain-Baello</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=359484" data-title="Death Comes To Any Age de Cynthia Buhain-Baello" data-description="There is one story that makes me shudder And so with care I live each day It is about a mother and a daughter Who went to a mall for her birthday. The mother promised the eight year old For a cellphone as her requested gift, Excited to call her ..."></div> </div> </div>

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