Became a statistic

Became a statistic

He became a statistic

Over the festivities,

A death to become insignificant - got counted as a road fatality

What was a joyride became tragic

And yet the parents never knew but now they had

Funeral imminent, replacing tears of joy

Now tears of watching the coffin going down for this boy

Said he became a statistic, fatalities that the roads were seeing

Happy over the limits till one was limited

To eating from straws or having food mashed instead

A time of celebration can easily be transformed to a morning

Were the colour is black

And the gathering is mourning

And then we come back to ask what caused it

We forgot to stay alert when it mattered the most and now we hurt

Living for the moment was never flawless

Jumping all the other stages like being sick

One wrong move caused so many deaths

And to us that just became another statistic