The terrible air crash tragedy in the French Alps was a salutary reminder of the fragility of the human

mind and the catastrophic effects on others that it can inflict it undetected, untreated and out of

(self) control.

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Who knows what filled that pilot's mind

So high in Earth's bright air

Or if he even sought to find

A thought for the souls in his care

 

Chatting...sleeping..on they flew

Thinking of home and friends,

Little dreaming (God forbid they knew!)

How suddenly living ends.

 

Shutting out the world and blame

His mind chose to ignore

The desperate pleas that surely came

From beyond that cabin door

 

Even breathing...eyes open wide,

Down was the way he chose

To oblivion on a mountain side

And why, we ask? Who knows?

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