Franklin Price Poet Rhyme

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What have we learned in the twenty years since the towers fell? Anything good?

A Score of Years Ago Today

A Score of Years Ago Today
By Franklin Price
09/11/2021 (8:20 AM)

A score of years ago today
As I begin this write
The towers were still standing 
Were the tallest things in sight

We the People, unsuspecting,
That those towers soon would fall,
In a place called New York City,
But would affect us one and all.

Never would we be the same again,
Not from sea to shining sea,
When terrorists attacked that day,
They were attacking you and me.

And what this country stands for 
Home of the free and brave
Many of us died that day
Had lost the peace for which we crave

This morning, after twenty years,
We look back and recall
The actions that were taken
After they made the towers fall

We declared, forever war,
Not on a nation, but a faction
Where did we go? What did we do?
What satisfaction, for our action?

Separation has befallen us
Getting greater every day
Many terrorists, we find,
Are in, the good old U.S.A.

Today, this anniversary day,
We should vow to heed the call
Work together for the common good
For we're about to lose it all .

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L Milton Hankins September 11, 2021 at 9:20 AM Franklin, a forward-looking recollection, I think, although an oxymoron. I loved the last two lines, especially, for if we don't learn to work together for "the common good" we are certainly in danger of losing it all.