#404...The Free-fall.

                                                

                                 What runs through the mind of a man 
                             Falling untold stories, having jumped at will 
                                         To escape a landscape 
                                            Of fire and smoke  

                                         And death surrounding  

                                What clarities come with the moment - 
                                 when fingers slip deliberately away
                                           From reinforced steel
                                             And false security,   

                                           Of things man-made, 
                                           Now man-destroyed

                                    Which of his memories rush after 
                                               him to comfort - 
                     When life was good and hummed to daily necessity   

                                           Is it familiar voices,
                                            Or beloved faces, 
                                   Or the taste of morning coffee
                                sipped appreciating an Aegean sky? 

                             What seeps through the heart of Men
                                                 Free-falling 
                                          Against blurred visions 
                                             Of steel and glass -  

                             Unbridled, untethered, to life once known   

                                         What kind of man-evil 
                                      need call on blue mornings 

                                       Uninvited and unappointed,
                                           In the form of jet fuel 
                                          and human body parts   

                                       To bear the name of Allah? 

 

                                                                                           ~flora