A Brief Commemoration to Those Who Died on September 11th

I am writing this to you,

You who will never read this.

I am writing to tell you that the world is still beautiful, and that people still dance and make love and kiss their children on the foreheads.

We still haven’t quite figured out what we’re here for or why life can get so fucked up.

But tonight we take our breaths a little slower and love the world a little deeper– because we know that all of this, like you, could be gone so soon.