candlelit vigil, early hours
in drifting smoke from a blackened tower.
flame out the windows, a final image
of doomed lives ending on live news footage.
sunrise on ash, nightfall on mourning
in a city of bones a new day is dawning
flowers and candles, the flickering flames
relight the image of burning again
in that candlelit vigil, final hours
in plumes of smoke from a concrete tower.