"Never Shall I Forget That Smoke"

It's been four years....

Four years since the dizzying unbelief of a world gone mad crashed upon us.

Four years since televisions were turned unanimously to the news without question and without a single voice of dissent.

Four years since humanity converged together in one breath of common suffering and loss and feeling that bound us in blood.

Four years since we were absolutely unable to tear our eyes from the images we saw, that smote themselves upon our hearts and our lives.

Four years since the smoke and the fire robbed us of our innocence.

Four years since we watched in horror as bodies, people, threw themselves and fell from the towers.

Four years since I could not stop shaking.

Four years since the world ended.

And what do we carry within us now?