Forecast Today = Gray Skies with Showers of Tears

In May 2001 I took a trip to my hometown of New York with two of my closest friends. One of them took this picture of the World Trade Center: 

My friend that took this picture has since passed away after a long battle with cancer. I remember joking around and saying to her that we were so lucky to be on vacation having fun and partying away, and just think of all of the people inside of those buildings working away and shuffling papers around and gossiping by the water cooler. And then, only 4 months later while those same people were working in those buildings, and I was watching the news while ironing my pants for work, the unthinkable happened. I just wanted to share this picture and also a memory that I had when on vacation with my dearest friend in New York City who has since left this earth.

It’s so important to cherish and appreciate the ones you have now, because you never know when a perforation can occur, causing a painful collapse.

The Destroyer

 

As I stand here alone and watch this burning gleam

I question the strength of this lone water stream

Life is destroyed before my watering eyes

Above all of the crackling I can hear their frantic cries

The life right in front of me I know death can’t be spared

But the lives right behind me are most definitely scared

I will not give up this battle to rescue them

This fire so evil I will fight and condemn

All the living creatures in back of my boots

No matter how small with fur or with roots

All are vital and depend on my force to resolve

And kill this demon of blistering heat and make it dissolve

The fire screams out and I hear it calling my name

I question my ears, as there’s no voice in a flame!

My mind is a blur and it melts in a daze

And then I myself become one with the blaze...