In a moment …

“I just bumped into a wall.
I knew it was there
and thought I was taking care,
but I must have misjudged
(or a moment’s abstraction/distraction?)
and the wall didn’t budge
or break,
but my car has a scrape
and the cost won’t be small
of bumping into that wall …”

[IP: ‘I happened to bump into...’]