Pardon me if you find me rude,

but this just ticks me off,

so, darn much.

How could you allow a city to endanger school children?

Especially on a crossing mobbed by cars,

where the school bus doesn’t visit.

I was five when I started crossing there daily,

and at least once a week

I watched a car zoom by just

feet from my feet.

We had a light,

a crosswalk,

a guard,

and still we were threatened weekly

if not daily.

Our guards quit because they felt unsafe,

anyways what good would they be protecting your safety

if they spent the whole time fearing for their own?

When I was in kindergarten my Mama wrote a grant,

to buy signs that would inform drivers of their

speed as they approached our crossing,

so maybe they would think before

they ran over a six-year-old.

She organized it,

paid for it,

and waited,

and waited,

and waited.

I was in sixth grade and no longer crossing there daily

when they placed them.

Six years later.

Now our neighborhood has shifted focus,

to the traffic circle down the road.

The circle I will cross daily,

throughout middle school (now),

and High School (later).

The most dangerous street I cross daily

had no crosswalk,

until a few weeks ago.

Still there is no guard,

no light,

no anything else.

I’m told they made plans to renovate

and make the circle safer,

in 2008,

but we'll still be waiting,

and waiting,

and waiting,

and waiting until,

2020, the year I graduate, from High School.

Maybe I am selfish,

all this will benefit kids,

but not me,

I will live a jeopardized life,

commuting to school.

Maybe you find me rude,

but this still pisses me off,

so 

darn

much.

Reposted with pictures version of Crossing roads, couldn't get it to sprout a slideshow, and so many photos in normal text were kind of awkward