Bethesda, Angel of The Waters by mintaka

Writers • World Events/Social Commentary • posted on Feb 10, 2009

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Flight 1549, Miracle on the River Racing like a mistral a great machine lowers its wings, lifts its face to embrace the air and soars into the azure. Three minutes after escaping Earth, leaving thunder in its wake, it collides with a flock of birds; and its mighty engines fall silent. Windswept pinions are turned to stone, majestic flight caught in the web of gravity, glistening metal like hollow bone transformed into the fall of Icarus. Below its descent a forest of steel, below its collapse canyons of glass; nowhere a landing, no field to alight except for a river and its swift cold tide. Down through the sky the silver ship glides. Its pilot holds steady the wheel of fate. Above a bridge like an arrow she flies and strikes the river in a shower of ice. Ships of all sizes, boats and rafts hasten to her side like angels of mercy, the best of America, the best of mankind. Hours pass as each human life is plucked from the waves of the waters of death, each human hand an armada of breath, each human heart an instrument of Grace, caring, comfort and ultimately release from tragedy’s crypt on the darkest of days. © 2009 John M. Marshall