Saturday, 1 January 2011

A POEM TO THE HEROES


A POEM TO THE HEROES




LIFE AS NORMAL DAILY ROUTINE READY FOR WORK LIVING THE DREAM
SUNSHINING BRIGHT COOL BREEZE IN THE AIR HAPPY GO LUCKY WITHOUT A CARE
WALKING TO WORK UNAWARE OF EVENTS TO UNFOLD
EVENTS THAT WOULD LEAVE A WORLD IN DISBELIEF NUMB AND COLD


08:45Am NORTH TOWER IS STRUCK MANY BELIEVE ACCIDENTALLY JUST BAD LUCK
SOON THOUGH THE WORLD WILL SEE, IT WAS NO MORE THAN TERRORISTS RUNNING AMUCK
9 MINS LATER THE SOUTH TOWER IS HIT EMERGENCY SERVICES RUSH TO AID THOSE IN NEED
A DARK DAY FOR HUMAN KIND, HOW COULD THOSE INVOLVED COMMIT SUCH AN EVIL DEED


ACROSS THE WORLD NEWS REPORTS, IMAGES FLASH UPON THE SCREEN
HARD TO IMAGINE SUCH A TRAGIC HORRIFIC UNBELIEVABLE SCENE
LIKE A SCENE FROM A MOVIE, THOUGH VERY QUICKLY REALITY KICKS IN
TRYING TO MAKE SENSE AND UNDERSTAND NOT KNOWING WHERE TO BEGIN


HARROWING STORIES EMERGE RELAYED TO A WORLD OUTSIDE THAT IS IN COMPLETE SHOCK
DEALING WITH THE INTIAL IMPACT CO-ORDINATING RESCUE, RECOVERY, TAKING STOCK
MAKING FRANTIC LAST CALLS TO FRIENDS & TO THEIR LOVED ONES, A SENSE OF DESPAIR
WHILST ALL AROUND THEM CRUMBLES AND BURNS, DEVESTATION EVERYWHERE


WITHIN A FLASH YOUR WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, HOW QUICKLY EVENTS CAN UNFOLD
UNIQUE STORIES OF BRAVERY & COURAGE, EMERGE BRINGING HOPE AS EACH ONE IS TOLD
RESCUERS CORAGEOUSLY BATTLE THE HEAT, SMOKE, COLLAPSING BUILDINGS TO SAVE A LIFE
LIKE SO MANY VICTIMS THAT DAY THEY TOO WOULD NOT RETURN SOME LEAVIN CHILDREN & A WIFE


FEARLESS AND WITHOUT QUESTION, WITH NO THOUGHT FOR THEMSELVES THE HEROES FOUGHT ON
STRIVING UNTIL THE BITTER END WHEN ALL REALISTIC HOPE OF SAVING ANYMORE HAD GONE
WHAT WENT THROUGH NOT ONLY THEIR MINDS BUT ALSO THE MINDS OF THOSE TRAPPED & SCARED
SHARED BY THOSE THAT SURVIVED, ON A DAY FOR WHICH NO ONE WAS FULLY PREPARED


MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE YOUNG AND OLD LOST THEIR LIVES ON THAT FATEFUL DAY IN SEPTEMBER
FOR THOSE OF US WITH A CONCIENCE, THOSE BRAVE PEOPLE WE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER
WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME, THEY NEVER ASKED FOR OR DESERVED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN THAT DAY
IF THERE IS TRULY A GOD THEN JUSTICE WILL BE DONE AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE WILL ONE DAY PAY




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