9/11 Elegy

SEPT 11 ELEGY

crystal blue sunny skies, and the birds fly

out of the blue,crashing pain

horror

inferno

devastation

mind reels ignites

hurtling fear

slicing gashing

ripping asunder

a wound unimaginable

“Oh my God Oh my God!”

and then

incomprehensible

fury repeats

an instant

becomes eternity replays endlessly

death

fiery,leaping,choking,burning

praying

crashing collapsing destruction

again and again

we agonize why

we  lament

we weep unconsolable

for whom do we cry?

for the souls embarking

into the crystal blue skies

floating free spirits aloft

invincible souls

dwelling eternal

needing no earthly towers 

Do they need our tears

or do they weep for us?

c. 2001 Maggie Murphy