Silently Eerie
by
Mary -BrytEyz- Ball
(Age: 40)
copyright 03-26-2002
Age Rating: 7 to 127
I was on a plane about ninety miles from the Pentagon when the 9-11 tragedy started. The air was thick and hard to describe... silently eerie comes close.
The F.A.A. has just issued an order
grounding all air travel in the U.S.A.
An endless chatter of cell phones erupts
urgently trying to locate "someone".
Everyone tries to somehow explain
what we don't yet understand ourselves.
Here on this plane I feel a thick air
of numbing silence and disbelief,
It's tainted with disappointment
and perhaps a bit of fear as well.
With matter of fact movements
We exit the plane and simply stare.
As we look around in a kind of hush
not knowing really what to do,
things seem to pass by in slow motion
as they often do when gravely important.
The noise around is hard to explain
and contradictory to say the least.
The blaring televisions play and re-play
the stabbing truth and horror, while
people are muttering to themselves
and utter statements in half whispers.
Phones, pagers, beepers, and alarms
all busy with constant activity.
Still, amidst the hustle and bustle,
the situation demands something;
and that something lingers all around
stealing our breath & slowly suffocating.
In its' stealthy existence
it shouts something silently eerie!
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I lived right along a flight path not too far from O'Hare airport in Chicago when that happened. I think silently eerie is a great way to describe the skies near my home for a few days after the tragedy. I used to sit in the window before that with Cody when he was less than 2, watching the planes fly by every couple of minutes. I remember walking out to my car one night after 9 11, and there was a lone military jet flying very high in a sky where you could, at times, count as many as 12 planes, flying in different directions. Once you could no longer hear that jet, it really was silently eerie!
I am extremely glad you were on the plane that you were on, and not any other.
(((hugs))) BJ
that was so scary for me and the rest of the family we were so scared and i almost cryed wen you called telling me that u were on that plane 90 miles frome it i hade noticed how much i relly lovw you and how you were the only thing keeping me alive and in this world after that i relly took time to see all the thing you do for me,i love you mom
your son
~DJ
Hello Sammy, thank you for reading and commenting. As for being calm, I think I was more in shock than anything. But I really was scared. I had just boarded a plane to take me home and spent the rest of my money on suveneirs. Then 9-11 started happening and they grounded my plane and I had to get off at Richmond Airport in Virginia when I live in Michigan. I was very scared and I had no money and I was stuck there for nearly a week. If you notice the date I posted it... I couldn't even post anything for awhile after it happened. I think the whole world was in shock, you know? Anyway, thanks again for your comments. :-)
I was going to a job site when the first plane hit. I drove straight to the nearest store and watched in disbelief. I then knew how the people that talk about what war was like, felt and I was sad I had seen it! Thanks, Anthony
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