ROAD SAFETY POEMS The chapter contains a poetry collection written by the author on road safety. The collection includes lyrical poems and folk poems that sound like war poems and create a resonating effect with their messages, and could also be sung in different programs on road safety. Poem 1-- O DRIVER ! O DRIVER ! O driver ! O driver ! Slow up !! Slow up !! Look, there on your sides, Roll the bodies maim'd, Dismembered, dead. Look behind, An endless trail of blood, All warm and thick, Does sweep away the life Of humanity. O driver, Do brake your savage wheels Of precocity ! O driver ! O driver ! Slow up !! Slow up !! Look ahead, There mill about a shaken lot Depressed, unfed In quest of their daily bread. They know not rules, They know not roads, They carry loads of worries, In angst and agitation; They are blinded by want of facts And direction... ...
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