9/11
Tribute
9/11
Tribute Two thousand one,
nine eleven
Three thousand plus arrive in
heaven
As they pass through the
gate,
Thousands more appear in
wait
A bearded man with stovepipe
hat
Steps forward saying, "Lets sit, lets chat"
They settle down
in seats of clouds
A man named Martin shouts out
proud
"I have a dream!" and once he
did
The Newcomer said, "Your dream still lives."
Groups of soldiers
in blue and gray
Others in khaki, and green then
say
"We're from Bull Run, Yorktown, the
Maine"
The Newcomer said, "You died not in
vain."
From a man on
sticks one could hear
"The only thing we have to
fear.
The Newcomer said, "We know the
rest,
trust us sir, we've passed that test."
"Courage doesn't
hide in caves
You can't bury freedom, in a
grave,"
The Newcomers had heard this voice
before
A distinct Yankees twang from Hyannisport
shores
A silence fell
within the mist
Somehow the Newcomer knew that
this
Meant time had come for her to
say
What was in the hearts of the five thousand
plus
that day
"Back on Earth, we
wrote reports,
Watched our children play in
sports
Worked our gardens, sang our
songs
Went to church and clipped
coupons
We smiled, we laughed, we cried, we
fought
Unlike you, great we're not"
The tall man in
the stovepipe hat
Stood and said, "Don't talk like
that!
Look at your country, look and
see
You died for freedom, just like me"
Then, before them
all appeared a scene
Of rubbled streets and twisted
beams
Death, destruction, smoke and
dust
And people working just 'cause they must
Hauling ash,
lifting stones,
Knee deep in hell, but not
alone
"Look! Blackman, Whiteman, Brownman,
Yellowman
Side by side helping their fellow
man!"
So said Martin, as
he watched the scene
"Even from nightmares, can be
born a dream."
Down below three
firemen raised
The colors high into ashen
haze
The soldiers above had seen it
before
On Iwo Jima back in '44
The man on sticks
studied everything closely
Then shared his
perceptions on what he saw mostly
"I see pain, I see
tears,
I see sorrow -- but I don't see fear."
"You left behind
husbands and wives
Daughters and sons and so many
lives
are suffering now because of this
wrong
But look very closely. You're not really
gone.
A ll of those
people, even those who've never met you
All of their
lives, they'll never forget you
Don't you see what
has happened?
Don't you see what you've
done?
You've brought them together, together as
one.
With that the man
in the stovepipe hat said
"Take my hand," and from
there he led
three thousand plus heroes, Newcomers
to heaven
On this day, two thousand one, nine
eleven
Author UNKNOWN
DON'T KEEP SUCH
MEANINGFUL WORDS AND
FEELINGS TO YOURSELF. PLEASE
PASS THIS ONE ALONG.
September 11,
2008, is soon approaching. On that day,
please wear
red, white and blue to work or school to
show your
support for those who lost their lives on
9~11~01
and to honor the heroes who worked to save
them and
the families left behind. At noon your
time
on September 11, 2008, no matter where
you are or what
you are doing, stop, put your hand
on your heart, and
say the Pledge of Allegiance out
loud or to yourself
and say a prayer for our
nation.
In addition, for
those of us who drive to work, please
drive with
your headlights on to also give honor and
remembrance to those who perished on September
11th.
If all of us do
this together in every time zone round
the world, we
will have a powerful chain of thoughts
surrounding
us. Please keep this going to your friends
and
family.
By September 11,
2008 hopefully enough people will
have read this and
will join together in unity.
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