Horror

I didn't see the smoke and blood
Or the death indiscriminate

Or soot and tear stained survivors faces
In shock at escaping fate

I didn't hear the detonation
Or the crashing of the train

Or the panicked screams underground
Of bewildered anguish and pain

But I felt the shock of the city
A sense that something had changed

And I felt horror and sympathy for those
Whose lives had been rearranged