Entry 9

This is the one I got stuck on last time that I forgot. This is a view from a different perspective. Sept 11th through a Birds Eye View.

     As I flew over the buildings, all I could see was smoke roaring out of the side of each of them. I was to scared to land where I usually did each day to rest from roaming the city for food. I flapped my wings and flew a little further to a building down the way that had been untouched. As I perched up on the edge, I could people below scurrying and running. It seemed like nothing but mayhem. The sound of sirens echoed through the streets from many emergecy vehicles. It seems like every street in the burough had a few rushing down it towards the buildings that were on fire. I thought back to the sky I had been flying through all day, and how beautiful of a morning it had been, and now this would wash all that away. If only the people stuck inside had wings like me to fly away from the horror that was taking place. Unfortunately, they didnt, they only had legs for walking. I seen a few try to fly, but to no avail as they hit the ground below making such a scary thumping sound when they hit. The smoke was getting thicker and trailing towards the river and through the city. A few of my bird buddies spotted me and decided to join me on the edge of the building. They looked as shocked as me. As we sat there watching, we heard a rumble, and in an instant the first building began to collapse. It startled all of us as we took off through the air away from the buildings and away from the danger. People were screaming and running away as we flew overhead, safe from all the commotion that was going on below. The ash of the debris begin burrowing through the city streets, so we flew higher and farther away. Maybe if we had just headed south for the winter a little early this year, we would not have had to witness what happened that day. To stay out of danger, we never again went close to where it all happened, we flew further out into the suburbs to a tree that was a long way from the incident. Once again we went about our daily ritual of finding food, and now building new nests out here. I wonder what happened after that horrible collapse. No one spoke of it the rest of the day, but it was all on our minds.