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morning
news on fire
planes and towers,
pentagon — we N E V E R
F O R G E T.
jumpers —
desperate,
hold family
in woeful reverie.
G O D S E E S
firemen
sacrificed.
smoke cloud chases
frantic New York City —
A T W A R.
mourning
two towers?
no - the deceased!
their kith and kin remain
A W A R E
sunken
ships of steel —
square grave fountains,
a perpetual flood —
D I G S D E E P*
9-11-2019
*to make a lot of effort with one’s resources.
In this case, it is a pocket of tears.
You walk through the metal detector
You look at me with a deep seated scorn
You loath that I made you remove your stuff
You had to take off your shoes belt and jewelry
You’re thinking “I’m no criminal or terrorist so why me”
I am only doing the job the government requires of me
I am not the reason you are harassed and had to partially strip
I do empathize with you seeing I have to do the same thing too
No one cares that I am a Screening Officer I am searched when I travel
The government says what’s good for the goose is good for the gander
You want to get mad at someone then look in the right direction
The ones who blatantly took the lives of our families and friends
Who took the choice of traveling to most places away forever
Who took the privilege of carrying most things on board away
The freedom to travel with our liquids and gels peanut butter and jam
Don’t blame me because I am risking my life to keep you safe
Don’t blame me for someone not caring about your fate
Don’t blame me for what Mr. Harper and Mr. Obama says
Or for what the UK says is their Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
Don’t blame me I am just the messenger that holds many lives in my hand
Nine eleven heroes on a plane one day
Took Frodo's advice, and gave their lives away
In a selfless act, known to only a few,
They gave their bodies up, and became angels anew
When heroes step up and run in and save others,
They are showing their best, integrity taught by their mothers.
Their fathers can have some credit if credit is due.
Frodo's advice is sound, every day for me and for you.
What you give up, may be flesh and skin
But we are in a spiritual war, this world we are in.
To give up your life for the life of another,
This is truly the advice Frodo gave Sam, his spiritual brother.
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, whose bodies were not found,
we gifted presentation helmets bound
to loved ones for the funerals they held.
Such awful, somber days, unparalleled.
If I could change the 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.
I was at work as a school counselor
in a grade school
in Kirksville, Missouri.....
my boss called me over to whisper about the twin towers
My husband has a badge that shows he was there on 9-11-2000, one year before
I was asked to tell the other teachers to NOT show this on TV to their students
Our school was third, fourth and fifth grade
One teacher got hostile when I asked her to turn the tv off.
She yelled at me that she would not turn it off.
She was from the New York area,
and she was showing this to her second graders
I had to ask my principal to go down there to get her to turn it off
She did more yelling
She was hysterical, I think she got sent home
I had no idea at that time how much worse it was going to get
I remember feeling total sadness and dread for our nation
Wondering if this was just a teensy bit of the terrorism that would be coming
Survivors
by Michael R. Burch
(for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families)
In truth, we do not feel the horror
of the survivors,
but what passes for horror:
a shiver of “empathy.”
We too are “survivors,”
if to survive is to snap back
from the sight of death
like a turtle retracting its neck.
Published by The HyperTexts, Gostinaya (Russia), Ulita (Russia), Promosaik(Germany), The Night Genre Project and Muddy Chevy; also turned into a YouTube video by Lillian Y. Wong. Keywords: survivor, survivors, victim, victims, family, families, 911, 9/11, terrorist, attack, terror, terrorism, empathy, sympathy, truth, horror, death, survive, survival , violence, pain
Oh! Who are you going to call;
whenever you're in serious trouble?
Our troubled friends when you need help?
(Just call upon the heavenly angels 911!)
Oh! Who are you going to call;
whenever you need them around?
If you really need someone to help you?
(Just call, just call angels 911!)
Just call upon the heavenly angels 911!
(Just call, just call angles 911!)
Just call upon the heavenly angels 911!
(Just call, just call angels 911!)
Oh! Who are you going to call;
in life and death situations?
Just ask Jesus Christ to send
(His heavenly angels 911!)
Oh! Who is Jesus Christ going to
send to take you heaven bound?
(He'll send His heavenly angels 911!)
(He'll send, He'll send his angels 911!)
Love in Christ Jesus!
Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954
Roxy 1954/ October Country
February 13, 2013
Oh! There is nowhere heavenly angels fear to go.
Sometimes they have descended into the fiery depts.
of hell fire's bottomless pit. Dispatched there on a
angelic angel rescue," calling upon angels 911."
Some of those rescued had warning dreams,
others and near death experiences. Some
back sliding Christians, even forgot they were
even saved. They came back and told their stories.
Some people have visions and dreams about people
many thousands of miles away. An angel has
appeared to them and instructed them to pray.
The vision remained as long as the danger did.
God dispatches special guardian angels to watch
over children twenty hours a day and a night.
And Jesus Christ, never hides his face or his grace.
They have been the extra special prayer needs.
God even dispatches special angels to watch
over the family's pet and vets. He hears
the cry's of the wild animals. Praying
to him for food. And protection for their young
Sometimes angels appear on rescue
missions in human form. Giving people,
directions and warnings. Before people
come back, they disappear!
Former gang members were threatened by
their own gang because they wanted out.
They would see gigantic angelic beings
with drawn swords! But their victim did not!
Love in Christ Jesus!
Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954
Roxy 1954/ October Country
January 22, 2020
Today commemorates that awful day-
termed nine-eleven, twenty years ago,
when we, in shock, stood helpless in dismay
of what our eyes observed- that terror show;
planes downing our Twin Towers in that way.
So hard to comprehend those loved ones gone,
observing there or from our TV sets,
and praying that firefighters could bear on
to help, but later learned with sad regrets,
that hundreds gave their lives in spite of brawn.
The visions we beheld that dreadful year-
three-thousand dead- can never be erased.
Their families then left to persevere
without dear loved ones- prayed to be embraced
by faith in God to heal their pain and fear.
Today, our fears are bounding once again!
The Afghan warriors were just set free-
ending the war our soldiers died in! Then-
our weapons left behind that now decree-
more fears of future wars; not if- but when.
September 11, 2021
The World Trade Center buildings once stood so tall
No one could have ever thought that they would ever fall
They were a symbol of our country and glittered in the sun
But they were obliterated forever on the date of 911
We all cried and asked God the question of how and why
As the souls of the departed made they’re way towards the sky
Brave men and women searched for survivors through the cluttered mess
What was the reason for the attack was just anyone’s pondering guess
Our minds were permanently wounded and our hearts were destroyed
Many family and friends were left with a life long void
Candles were lit and mourners’ hands were peacefully together held
A nation came together and we were all completely compelled
A sense of pride came over us like we never felt before
Because of the death of our fellow Americans from an unprovoked war
Will we ever fully recover from the pain and suffering that others have begot
So we will build memorials, raise flags, bow our heads in prayer to the saluting gunshot
To be strong and to heal is a goal we all have had to set
To honor those who died for freedom and to never ever forget
Maybe we will learn to live life again like we did before that fateful day
And always remember our loved ones and look at our flag in a different way
Lets go on with our hopes dreams and fulfill every waking endeavor
Immortalize their loss sacrifice and eternal memory now and forever and ever