In Memory

[fuzzywuzzy]

Bright explosion in warm morning sun
Below seventy, it’s time to run
Aviation fuel blots out the sun
Airline pilot is suicide gun

Second flash in twenty minute span
Below sixty, get out if you can
Fatal damage to the beauteous span
Turning it into a crumpled can

World above comes crashing to the ground
Smoke and mirrors make an awful sound
Sirens cough as concrete crashes down
Silence broken is an eerie sound

Still, in memory we congregate
Vowing never to capitulate
Two years later we congratulate
Soldiers in a war that came too late

How could hatred ever get this far?
Who let terrorism raise the bar?
Should we fight or should we just appease?
Questions with no easy answers these

Mass destruction weapons make a war
Settling eleven year old score
Capturing a no-investment lease
War is won. Can we win the peace?

In the questions and the placing blame
Sometimes it seems like an evil game
More things change, the more they stay the same
Still nine-eleven a fearful name

In the somber, silent, memory park
Breathes an ember,amber, loving spark
Born in fire and hellish revelry
Nine eleven we remember thee

For those fortunates who dared survive
Gratitude that they were left alive
People wanting to be just let be
To their grieving in the land of free