Poet with a Press Pass – AirAsia Flight QZ8501
Thursday, January 1st, 2015
What are the odds?
We ask each other,
watching another plane
disappear from radar
into a veil of clouds,
broken into bits,
flown beneath the waves.
The sky is falling.
In a made for TV mystery,
three giant jetliners full
of families, couples, children
have vanished into thin air.
Imagining the final moments,
we grimace and remember
flying is always an act
of faith in science: to believe
the invisible vectors
of lift and flow and velocity
can fight the insistent force
of Earth’s jealous hold.
Sobered, we stop and say
our prayers, promise to be better,
hope to God and goodness
we are survivors.
Anne McCrady
Poet with a Press Pass is written by Anne McCrady and produced by InSpiritry in response to world news, current events and social justice topics.
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