Wondering

See that shoe there 
by the side of the highway?
Is it detritus from some horrific accident
that left a carful of joyriding teenagers 
dead?
Their parents and friends 
forever grieving? 
Wondering, 
If only they hadn’t
If only I had.

I wonder,
but it's too terrible to consider for long.

Or did a college student,
driving his entire life back home for the summer,
Stop to change a tire,
open the door,
and the shoe fell,
unnoticed,
to the pavement?
Later, 
finding only one shoe,
did he wonder aloud, 
What the…?
Where the hell is my other shoe?

I wonder,
but I think he did.