9/11 five years on: post #3

"Gone", a poem

It felt as though the tears would never stop.
It seemed just like the world was going to end.

But life
went on,
for me
and you.

Sometimes I think back to that day,
and the pain seems just as fresh.

But now
it subsides
much more
quickly.



This is my only poem to be published in a book so far. © 2005