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San Juan county residents pause to remember on Sept. 14, 2001
Tuesday evening gathering at FHHS (Local reaction to Sept. 11, 2001 attack)
9/11
by peter delorenzi
The world became silent today
After the thunderous rumbles
As the two towers fell down
Amongst onlookers both near and far
In disbelief, anguish and fear
Fires, smoke and debris mingle
With politicians and police
Who themselves mingle with the dead
Firefighters, all trying to help the unhelpable
Professing possibility in a world of impossibilities
Where anything is possible
Especially in a world of technology
And civilization, that we seem to forget
Is responsible for the procreation of man
In his inhuman guise, with his inhuman mind
And yet we continue attempts to create a human being
From a single cell, but have we found what
Or who that single cell may become or truly was
Since we have already been and have already known
Our past, whether we really know it or not
Photo credit:
Robin Weiner/WirePix
And whether or not we return
Or whether or not we are worthy of returning
Or simply if the next life is beyond and beautiful
Our journeys will never be forgotten
Our journeys will never be forsaken
As our hopes stretch to the days beyond
We cling to pictures and memories
Always in hope, that singular thread
That binds us in love in times of hate
When God embraces us all
And in the name of God this terror strikes
Into the heart of all civilization
When it is not in the name of God at all
But in the mind and for the name
Of the unnamed that we all know
God no, not he, though he exercises
Those same rights, those same duties
As the real God must do, not the other's,
To tend to his own garden of time
Which is need of serious weeding
While the Nations weep to water the ground
And the skies blossom in the redness
Of the blood lost whence the parts parted
And were scattered beneath the rubble
Of the fittingly named Battery Park
Which is now hallowed ground,
as much as Auschwitz and Pearl Harbor
Where other men and women fell prey
To madmen playing God in a flawed role
In the theater of man on an island stage
Sharon Kivisto
and
Matt Pranger
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