Spøgelsescykel (Ghost Bike)
Photo: © Villy Fink Isaksen
Following the tragic deaths of many people who chose to ride a bicycle in November 2013 – especially in London – and not forgetting the many people who were walking that also were killed, a poem of remembrance by Ellen Saffrey (reprinted with permission):
A Request
If it should happen to me
Ride to the place and scream.Howl with the rage that I cannot,
shriek the laughter that’s been stopped,cry out my ecstasies, no longer shared,
squall for the children that I won’t bear,squeal the very efforts of my birth,
to make them hear what I was worth.But don’t keep silence, don’t be quick.
Stay. Be in the way, and scream.Scream into the space that’s left.
— Ellen Saffrey