about decades between crises

Seeing smouldering ashes would have helped us make sense of the dread. Instead, the destruction often remains theoretical. And Tammy really felt the fear with this one, with the encroaching pandemic. Why the difference? She had a lot more to lose now than she did in college when the attack of September 11th happened. Tammy is one of us mercantilists now.

(posts) "The End of an Era" by Hopesfall

"The End of an Era"
  -Hopesfall 

My searching eyes have never been so intrigued to see you.
I guess you found a way to make ten minutes last forever.
With each passing moment we drift further away,
Closer to our chosen paths

But I can't help remembering what was, what might have been.
But I have been warned by those who have passed this way before.
And to them I am grateful; and as for you, I am hateful.
And I pray that you find the peace you have been longing for.