The Blackest Day: Revisited
as the Towers die away
alone on a beach where thunderheads Roll
where I stood far from
shards of glass fire, horror, disaster
they televised only elemental chaos
cold rains passed through a nation's heart
then through my soul, hardened
on that day
that day when the unimaginable was destined
to end in fear
the day the towers came down
an insane day of Great Pain
that still haunts our hearts
still to this day, it is a new Infamy
a day that will live forever
for me then, the horrors of the coming holocausts
crowed my nightmares
a great stain of our collective history.
Felt in great disdain as I watch nightmares coming,
the towers, falling,
falling down to earth!
I watch the darkness gather in its wake
the blackest day never dreamt
as a nation cries
as a nation tries to understand
and Stand to face the terror of those future days
I watch divisions of desolation pit
Man against man
Brother against brother
belief against belief
these still echos through to this day
We fought back the tears
And watch what was happening
I try as I might
I try to see a future bright
I try as I might see a nation called together
to come to arms to take a stand
to muster the fight against an invisible enemy
I try and realize this world
this world was destroyed, rearranged
I cry as I feared the loss of a nation's soul
the time is at hand for a new day to be born
I will try and not let the hate burn out the rage
in the coming age, phantoms will linger
in the waiting, the slicing the wrong from right
I watch as a nation stands
tries to understand
a greater love Beyond destiny
I try to stand and understand this war
coming our way
postscript: this was 20 plus years yesterday ago
much has changed much has never gone away,
just like these tears, I fight as memory
cascades a storm in my inner history
all is left open, a sore
all is debris scattered
along a distant shore
now a new terror is born...a new war has come!
2 years and counting...
Copyright © Poet Tellaferro | Year Posted 2021
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