The world spins in water
The world spins in flame
Today into tomorrow
Nothing’s the same.

Do their deaths matter?
Does anyone care?
Their yesterday vanishes
Into the air.

Down paths of violence
Down corridors of pain
Your memory is silenced
By torrents of rain.

Today’s world is upended.
Does anyone care
What violence descended
In that terrible year?

Thus time stands between us
And time’s not our friend.
We’re caught in a vortex
Its tribulation won’t end.

So what does it matter
That in that far day
The fall of the Towers
Took you away?

9/9/17 c Leona M Seufert