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9/11—911

I turn on Good Morning America for my daily dose
of news and entertainment, watching witty banter
between Diane Sawyer and Charlie Gibson – always a treat

but this day is different — this day something is wrong

live feed pans over to the Twin Towers…
smoke, flames, people jumping out of windows
screaming, and calling for help

flipping feverishly through the channels
in some dismal hope this is some extensive stunt for
a movie yet to come to the theaters…but no…

horror fills my soul as my mind tries to wrap around the fact
this is NOT a movie this is REALITY

an airplane continually flies directly into one building…
and then another repeats this action upon its twin
over and over again…the ghastly part of instant replay

shivers tingle down my spine, tears sting my eyes
I, like millions more, are confused, maybe just maybe
the pilots were unconscious and couldn’t see the large building

What kind of hideous accident could this be?
dreadful things come in threes…

my eyes glued to the television screen soaking information
trying to understand why this happened – why so many
lives had to be lost this day…why

plane three strikes the Pentagon…Americans
realize this is not a happenstance, this day,
September 11, 2001 is full of direct radical hits

this day full of fear, doom, and obvious hate — is one
the world will always remember has America being struck

to this day, the prickly feeling through out my being
when repeated footage comes screaming back to me…
frequent sobs are shed for my country's devastation

Why are terrorist so ironic in their plots?
                             9/11 turns into 911




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