Fragility

So how was that final journey? Excited chatter about going home Sadness at departure from fresh friends Their future before them Full of hope and new horizons Bags bulging with souvenirs And homecoming gifts. Parents looking forward to embracing reunions A school agog in anticipation Yearning to share in their experiences Old haunts soon to be revisited As they slip back into old routines Life to go on Back to normal. Pilot terror snuffed that candle out All expectations asphyxiated Silenced,shredded and scattered On a bleak, barren scar of the Alps Bodies bloodied, battered and broken. Just how do we come to terms With such a loss? God only knows.