Only Ash

It was a morning like so many others

flipping on the Today show and thinking they are showing a movie clip

but it is real

eyes across the nations locked unblinking to screens.

This cannot be happening.

A second plane hits

people are jumping holding hands

burning up melting

the indestructible towers

lean

then fall

we gasp as one

then silence

what can be said?

Lives changed forever in one hour and forty minutes.

No one knows what comes next

when it will stop

if it ever will stops

we can never feel safe again.

We must do something

build stretchers by the hundreds

line up to give blood

but a hush

there are no bodies

only ash.