If I Could Change the Past -911
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~2nd Place~
Contest: The Good Samaritan
Sponsor: Craig Hawkins
Judged: 09/21/2017
~1st Place~
Contest: Change My Past
Sponsor: Nayda Ivette Negron
Judged: 07/29/2016
My poem is based on truth. My husband served in the City of Newburgh paid Fire Department for 27 years and retired as Assistant Chief. After that, we worked together in our fire equipment and service company with 7-9 employees for 20 years and sold it in 2004. We knew many of the NYC Fire Department firefighters. We visited the 9/11 Memorial Museum in NYC and found the names of those firefighters we knew who died inscribed in bronze on the memorial. Very sad...
September eleven, two-thousand-one-
dark age of homeland terror had begun.
If only I could change this horrid past-
alleviate deep pain from grief at last.
Three thousand souls were lost forever, then;
three hundred forty-three were brave firemen,
so many whom I'd come to know before,
when they'd stop by our fire equipment store.
Our county is just sixty miles away
from New York City, south of us, and they
would often live more north in New York State,
commute each shift- but many met their fate.
One family resided on our street...
that morning, he left home for Death to meet.
So many others we will never see
who purchased goods from us so faithfully.
For those who died, their bodies not yet found,
we gifted presentation helmets bound
to loved ones for those funerals then held-
such somber and sad days, unparalleled.
If I could change this past and turn back time,
erase that day of tragedy and crime,
my heart, with all the others, would rejoice
that these poor souls could live a life of choice.
Copyright © Sandra Haight | Year Posted 2016
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