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Flight 370
Emma Lee
She peered out the window
At the landscape below
Amazement shining in her gaze
Directed at cities ablaze
But what she and the others couldn’t have known
They would never again see a city’s glow
He fiddled with the food tray
She bounced him on her knee
His eyes fixed on the screen
Stubbornly fighting sleep
But he had never even wildly dreamed
This would be his last night to fall freely asleep
The man across the aisle
Hid a restless smile
The surprise he had planned
Made the arduous trip worthwhile
But he and the others hadn’t foreseen
Death had spoken its final summoning
The engines start to falter
Wings thrown out of kilter
A man launches himself valiantly
To shield his beloved family
Together the passengers brave the whirlwind
Their dreams blown astray, thoughts torn in the wind
A sudden flash
A sickening crash
An earsplitting crack
Then no sound at all
Time for once stands cold and still
The world of distant memories filled
Together they leave to fly safely at last
Upon the wings of an angel’s mast
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