Tuesday, September 11, 2012

September Eleventh.

It's amazing how something could happen so far away, something so dramatic and life altering, that it would forever leave an impression in our lives - everywhere.  I will absolutely never forget the events on 9/11 and I will never forget the way I felt, the way I wanted to cry and had no idea why, and the way I asked my teacher at school, "There's no one in those buildings, right?"  Watching the events unfold was too much to take in, forget understanding the why of it.  But to a 13 year old high school freshman, I knew this country would never be the same.  I used to write a LOT of poetry, and was published a few times. This is one poem that I wrote after 9/11:

God Bless America

God bless America, and all that makes us whole,
There were lives that were lost, that caused the hurting of our souls.
But revenge is not the answer, although some seem to think...
So much happened on 9-11, within an eye's one blink,
People jumping out of windows, their only means of escape,
Individual, side by side, some even hand in hand,
Leaving our country - the one true free land.
Why, though, so many lives?
Innocent people, with husbands, children, and wives,
Not even knowing they were about to die.
People who know, tell us the truth!
It isn't right, it isn't fair!
What can we do?  What can we say?
Things shouldn't have happened this way.
God bless America, and all that makes us whole,
There were lives that were lost that caused the hurting of our souls.

Let us all continue to pray for everyone who was affected by the September 11 attacks on our beloved country.