Windows

for the Poets United Thursday Think Tank prompt: Windows

I remember
people falling from windows,
their fear of the flames
greater than
their fear of falling.

My mind suspended
in horror and disbelief,
eyes watching their fall.
Still watching,
in memoriam,
today.

Hope and a Little Sugar

image from compassionconnection.org

I just watched a touching movie called Hope and a Little Sugar, about a forbidden  love between a Muslim man and a Sikh woman in the days surrounding 9/11 in New York. It was apparently based on true life events and, as such, was real  and touching and very human.

I was most struck by a line a wise older man spoke during the film:

"This is the world we've got, my friend.
We make it what it is, one choice at a time."

So true.