Just Look at the Trees

Evie O’Saben
122 Drexel Road
Ladson, SC 29456
843-901-2640
Stratford High
School, Class of 2020

Imagine what we
would see
If we were in the
car phone free.
We’d see the
birds, we’d see the sky,
And maybe start
to wonder why
Everyone is so
obsessed.

Can’t they give
their phones a rest?
What a shame to
want to hear
Every video so
clear.
Life’s outside
the car window.
But we bend our
necks to our screens so low.
There’d be less
wrecks if we would observe
Bumps in the
road, traffic and curbs.
We force the
government to make laws
So we don’t all
wreck and break our jaws.
We make them make
laws for everything we do
And then complain
when they harass me and you.
If we were
texting and saw a nearby cop
Do you think that
then we’d stop?
More tickets and
higher fines
Is that what we
had in mind?
It’s not just
our texting we need to talk about.
It’s always
using our phones when we drive on our route.
We don’t care
if a family’s in the car ahead

As long as our
Facebook gets read.
Would changing
laws save any lives
Or would phone
withdrawal give us hives?
Higher
deductibles and injuries
It would have
been better to look at the trees.

Thank
you for your consideration,


Evie O’Saben