We Remember

(lin­er notes for track 5)

They were com­ing home.

They were com­ing home to us,
where we were waiting
so proud­ly and assuredly.

Rid­ing a comet
and smil­ing, some­times laughing,
their human­ness sud­den­ly struck
a chord deep with­in us
as tragedy began to unfold,
seem­ing­ly with­out their knowing.

And then
as we watched the skies in desperation,
in a sin­gle breath out
they flew higher
than they had ever flown before,
and our lives came crash­ing down,
changed forever.

copy­right 2008 Anne Cabrera