Wednesday Wisdom: Remembering Nine-Eleven

Greetings... 
It seems fitting today, to share this poem about the historic attack on our neighbours on September 11, 2001. It still holds true: "justice denied anywhere, diminishes justice everywhere" (MLK).  With threats all around the world, the reckoning persists....

REMEMBERING NINE-ELEVEN
 
In ‘the city that never sleeps’ / On a normal Tuesday morning
There came a despotic assault / Suddenly, and without warning 
 
Trigger the sirens, blow the horns / Our nation is under attack
Let’s mobilize, into the fray / Forward comrades, we won’t turn back
Until we douse the raging flames / And arrest the sickening draft 
The twin towers, impaled this hour / Set ablaze by terrorist crafts
 
From this affront, we won’t cower / We’re trained to rescue and protect 
Helping trapped victims to escape / Several thousands we suspect
 
The stampede, the chaos, stifling / The scorching heat, the shrilling cries
Such hellishness out of control / As plumes darken the sunny skies 
Hearing desperate, fainting screams / We make advances at all cost
Brave souls defying frightful odds / So, fewest civilians are lost
 
We battle hard the hungry fire / Go climbing up with blinded sight
The steel skyscrapers imploding / Meant some crewmates fought their last fight
Scores of our peers are swallowed fast / In multiplying fiery traps 
Others weakened by the carnage / Emerge in ash from the collapse 
 
It’s simply mayhem all around / The world tuned in is shocked to see
Thousands burned alive within the / New holocaust this century 
 
With attacks elsewhere aborted / We salute all who braved the day
So too, we honour souls now gone / And for those left behind, we pray
 
We’ll recover from this slaughter / Also for justice ever fight
Standing on the rock of freedom / As joy comes with the new dawn’s light  
 
© 2024 - David A. McAdam

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