Masuk Senior Recites a Moving Poem Against Drunk Driving

Clarification: Earlier we wrote that Tyler Hurvul wrote this poem, but he did not. He was only asked to recite it. The author is unknown.

During the program for Masuk's Mock Crash on Wednesday morning, Masuk senior Tyler Hurvul, a member of Students Against Drunk Driving, was asked to recite a poem entitled, "Somebody Should Have Taught Him".

Listen to Hurvul recite it in the video or read the poem here:

Somebody Should Have Taught Him

I went to the party Mom, but I remembered what you said

You told me not to drink at all, so I had a Sprite instead

I felt proud of myself, the way you said I would

That I didn't choose to drink and drive, though some friends said I should

I knew I made a healthy choice and your advice to me was right

As the party finally ended and the kids drove out of site

I got into my own car, sure to get home in one piece

Never knowing what was coming, something I expected least

Now I am lying on the pavement, I can hear the policeman say, "This kid caused the wreck was drunk"

His voice seemed far away

My own blood is all around me, as I try hard not to cry

I can hear the paramedics say, "This kid is going to die"

I'm sure the guy had no idea, while he was flying high

Because he chose to drink and drive, that I would have to die

So now people do it knowing that it ruins lives

But now the pain is cutting me like a hundred stabbing knives

Tell my sister not to be afraid, tell Dad to be Brave

And when I go to Heaven to put "Beloved Child" on my grave.

Someone should have taught him that it's wrong to drink and drive

Maybe if his Mom and Dad had had, I would still be alive

My breath is getting shorter, I'm getting really scared

These are my final moments, I'm so unprepared

I wish that you could hold me Mom, as I lie here and die

I wish I could say, "I love you" and "Goodbye."