"Never Forget!" in Remembrance of 9/11/2001

Never Forget!

Lori Lane
Whether outside or inside job, it was complete. Completely mauled by a terrorist's teeth. As planes flew above structures, buildings, fields and star, the damage began from inside somewhere deep.

Do you remember 9/11 from afar? The sunny day when America was kidnapped, raped, partially charred? Who could forget but the ignorant too afraid to take a look, tune into history or open a book. Or those praising Bush's terrorist deck of cards.

Sick minds behind historical times only prove through their last words in flight. They would destroy America's backbone, or at least give it a try. Their "God", they claim guides their acts, guides their minds, guides attacks. Their "God", he rules a coward's kingdom full of spite.

Sick minds can find truth in less divine. Beyond the skies they reached new death tolls as they climbed. As others claim the terrorists planned it, some say U.N. and Bush scheduled the war, as it's hard to sift through signs from false folklore.

Whether outside or inside job, it was complete. Completely masterminded by evil actions seeking defeat. But America never wavered as she licked inside her wounds because America strives to rebuild from sea to sea.

But not long ago America swallowed from a torn paper cup of misery. When people dodged through top floors or scorched upon their knees. When passengers dove directly south through wicked force. When rescue workers died forevermore. The pungent fumes and smoke ridden vine, lack of assistance blocked each breathe to say goodbye. Photos of the missing with numbers of the source found on every avenue along New York's riddled course.

When Washington's high tech military tactics never shot down the planes to find. When the terrorists trained on American land undetected, are we blind? Either, or, we pay a deep respect for those who lost their lives on September 11th, a day marked when terrorism crossed the line.

Whether outside or inside job, it was complete. Completely gathered in the dust of humanity. As the anniversary approaches can you hear the spirits cry? "I'm trapped, please help! Dear God, don't let me die!" A moment that never can be hidden behind America's eyes. No tears left to shed, it's America's pride to stand tall against the odds, no matter what's defined. Our America, land of free, our homemade slice of pie.

For no one can replace the loving memory of a father who has passed or a mother who has died, leaving behind so many loved ones, so empty from time to time. Or the child that fell victim under rubble in distress, but couldn't be heard through thick walls of stone as their parents grasped their chests. Or the fireman that ran into hell only to be found in heaven. My friends, this is, without a doubt, in remembrance of September 11th.

2,996 people died and that doesn't include the rest. Adults and children, so hard to digest. What's done is done, let's help someone. Send them support, good will. Send them your best!

For those seeking a great 9/11 Haiku I suggest Abby Greenhill's September 11th.

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Written: September 9, 2010 in remembrance of September 11, 2001

Published by Lori Lane

Lori Lane is a published poet, active electronic journalist, technical writer, fitness center staff member. Lori Lane welcomes questions or feedback.  View profile

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  • Robert O. Adair8/16/2011

    Well done! Very eloquent!

  • Tony Payne10/1/2010

    Excellent job, love the rhyming too. It's still even now hard to believe that human beings (not people, because they are monsters) could do such terrible things. It was on my son's 21st birthday too.

  • Sheryl Young9/20/2010

    This is excellent, Lori. I especially love this: America swallowed from a torn paper cup of misery...

  • Tony Jingo9/19/2010

    glad that you have featured this Lori!

  • Gretta Gust9/14/2010

    Beautiful poem, but such an awful page in history.

  • Saul Relative9/10/2010

    Nicely done...

  • Jeffrey Weeks9/10/2010

    amazingly strong, I do remember :) jeffrey

  • Tony Jingo9/10/2010

    powerful Lori! thanks for including the link to Abby's haiku

  • Michele Starkey9/9/2010

    We have a picture of the twin towers hanging in our living room. It was given to me when I left NY back in 1992 to move to Boston. I moved back to NY in 2000, that picture means so much more to me now. They knocked down the towers but they couldn't defeat the American spirit that rose up from the ashes at Ground Zero. cheers:)

  • Charlotte Kuchinsky9/9/2010

    I remember it too vividly; much like the Oklahoma City bombing which was really close to home for me.

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