strong, dark cappuccino sipped
in fragile cups.
Good Morning America on the television,
our newborn slept soundly,
our high school age son was sleeping too.
Then in an instant,
nothing felt the same.
Shattered lives,
shattered dreams,
images branded in our mind.
Hollow sadness, despair, tears flowing.
Ten years later,
our thoughts laced together,
endless conversations,
about this moment.
A moment of sacrifice ,
a moment of pride,
a moment of to unite us all.
A poem I wrote in May that my friend Leslie said I should re-post for the anniversary of 9/11. Thank you, Leslie.
A moment that changed everything for America. Good poem.
ReplyDeleteIn an instant...how true. As I think about how far we've come in ten years, how rich these years have been, it's even more poignant to think of the 10 years times thousands of lives that were lost to those who died that day and their friends and family.
ReplyDeletei'm glad you re-posted it :)
ReplyDeleteI was watching GMA, too.
ReplyDeleteI've avoided this subject like the plague. It brings up such strong, evocative emotions in me. Non the less, this poem is poignant in every single way.
Truthful and touching.
ReplyDeleteyes - glad you posted it ayala...we should never forget...the world started to shake this day .. and not only the american world
ReplyDeleteThanks for reposting it... everything changed since that day~ poignant still ~
ReplyDeletei still carry the images today in my mind...that day in many ways changed my life...this was beautiful..and i only wish it would unite us...
ReplyDeleteSome moments never leave us.... that is certainly one of them. I remember exactly where I was, exactly what I was doing, I even remember that the swamp cooler in the desert home we were living in at the time was on and running. I can even still sense the smell that was in that desert air that day. It never goes away. And it never should... Thank you........
ReplyDeleteIncredibly difficult time for the whole of our civilisation actually. I have a poem on the 'death' of bin Laden and the inside job it was. It's horrendous.
ReplyDeleteGreat poem Ayala
Thank you, Glynn. Nothing will ever be the same....
ReplyDeleteTrue, Adrienne, true!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Alita. I think all of us were affected and hurt that day....
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jack.
ReplyDeleteClaudia...I agree..because the world will never be the same because of 9/11.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Heaven.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Brian. I can only imagine that day for you...thank you for sharing your memories with your readers.
ReplyDeleteThank you, John. So true that certain things stay with us with such a clarity....a day that changed the world.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Luke. I think we all share the pain of that day and all the days that followed.....
ReplyDeleteThank you, Leslie. You were the reason I re-posted today.
ReplyDeleteI felt twinges of patriotism on those first few days following, not an easy emotion for me.
ReplyDeleteI understand, Mark. I think we all felt that way.
ReplyDeleteEverything hinges on a single moment.
ReplyDeleteRudri, it does.....
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