Five Years Later

Five years later and I still remember the 14 hours directly post the flashbulb moment of 9/11 with total clarity. I recall everything. Every BBC News 24 image. Every word everyone around me said. Every vocal nuance. Every facial expression. I wish I did not. I wish the gaps in my memory had stolen that aftermath. There is no dulling of the horror. No dulling of the empathic pain.

Of course this year, the personal and political lies uttered in those hours have become entwined, hollow and bitter phrases that still echo in my mind. I wish I could forget everything that happened between that date and this year. I think that those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make remember.