MURDER MOST FOUL
There was a certain dread in the air
Like something ominous was ahead,
The building started to tremble,
It seemed impossible, a mental
Numbness gripped the people,
A disbelief, so morbid,
As a plane crashed through the upper floors,
Terrifying, just imagine,
It was as if the grim reaper had come, so horrid,
The plane exploded inside the tower
Like a bullet, which sprayed bodies
Everywhere, those still alive lived the horror,
Desperate people on fire, jumping
From windows, screaming,
People dying, many loudly crying
Bricks and mortar raining
Down, falling alight, injuring
Hundreds, some kept it together helping
Others who wouldn’t make it,
A day from Hell people yelled.
The building we learnt, was burning from within,
Melting the steel in the cement,
The tower started shuddering.
We are not going to make it people cried out,
Their children their wives, their husbands,
Their mothers, their fathers, their sisters,
Their brothers, imagine them all how helpless
They felt as they watched this present horror taking
Place on TV, many driving with screeching
Tyre's to the site, to see if this was real.
The second plane that crashed into the Twin
Tower, was much the same as the first.
The same destruction, the same dread, the same .
Fire enveloping the higher storeys as the plane
Exploded.
Murder most foul,
The Towers ultimately fell,
With thousands of people trapped,
And many brave firemen amongst them,
All dropping into a molten brick and
Cement fiery grave.
Our wish to their families is peace,
For their heartbreak will never cease,
And then to those who bore,
The brunt of the American wrath,
Innocent children amongst them killed
Families bombed and perhaps
Died or burnt to death
By flames from buildings that spilled.
We are all children of God,
Why should anyone have to face
Any human attack, a death squad,
Was this not murder most foul?
United we all deep down want the same,
We want peace to reign.
Yet history repeats itself,
With the Israeli, Gaza carnage.
On this day 9/11
My husband and I, had just entered the gym, and saw people
People crowded by the TV. We saw the second plane crash
Into the other twin tower, in time, as it happened,
And were struck with horror at what was happening,
Watching in total disbelief.
Thank you Agatha Christie, Title, 'Murder Most Foul' borrowed from your book published in 1988
Copyright ©
Jennifer Proxenos
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