#frailness

frailness Übersetzung frailness Deutsch

He stood over the boy, yet even then he still could not comprehend the situation. The boy was casually strewn across the road, the compulsory white line cleanly stabbing straight through his chest, disappearing only for a second before reappearing on the backside of the boy unperturbed and continued its mundane task of splitting the road. He fell to his knees to examine the boy despite the blood which now escaped through the polo shirt of the boy, making its long journey towards the gutters. Couldn’t have been past the age of sixteen, he concluded in his thoughts. He sobbed to himself out of fear, for what he knew frightened him. The frailness of naked mankind stripped of dignity and respect. He looked up to his God for an explanation, or reassurance of any kind, but the God appeared no closer than he had been during his morning prayers. Flashing from the distance, red and blue lights sharpened into existence, but it was too late. The boy was long gone. He heard nothing as they approached, the sound obstructed by the images that would haunt him for years to come. Police moved in all directions, a pistol catching his eye, then men in green, a stretcher somewhere in the distance, eventually everything became a blur. He remained solitary on his knees despite the movement around him until eventually he was escorted away by two policemen. He looked to them, but reassurance was not among them as they lifted him up, looks of false sympathy glued to their faces. They had seen this all too often, it was their reality, a reality now also forcibly exposed to the man. He hung his head in shame, shame of his weakness. Suddenly a roar exploded through the air as rain began to pour down from the heavens. Movements increased as the rain started to pound at the cars thrown across the road in a panicked frenzy. His car was driven off by a tow truck, and slowly one by one, the other cars disappeared, clearing the road for tomorrow. The last few drops of blood were drowned by the now torrential downpour, the white line clean of blood now, shot towards the horizon, separating the road so that backwards and forwards would never intersect.