Time Gauged in Glass

📷 Photo taken 30,538 days after impact

ISO 100 | 85mm | f/8 | 1/125 sec

Time heals all wounds.

unless you are unbiological—

wounds whisper the drastic-al.

Here, the pains of fractured blue

Glass motionless holds a whiff of war.

A crack, spidered with expansion,

of time and temperature,

by history itself—the narrator

On a morning that roused a giant.

It's been 2.6 billion seconds.

  732,912 hours.

  83 years, 7 months, and 10 days—

Give or take a sunrise.

The math is indifferent.

The memory is not, unless forgot

For 4,362 weeks and 4 days,

This glass has watched seasons change,

has diffracted light from the day and moonlight,

has echoed the Airman, Soldier, and Sailor's creed

and the faint click of the formation's souls

on pavement

Still, it stays.

In the stays.

Of the pain.

A memorial not made of marble

Hanging quietly among rafters

catching just the right angle

Watching history on a day

locked,

days away in infamy.