Remembrances

Towers would fall,
that September morning,
when fundamentalist Muslims
struck without warning.

A nation stood shocked
by this act of carnage,
but out of this tragedy
came proof of our courage.

As towers were falling,
heroes stepped forward,
sacrifice and rescue
in the face of horror.

No mere disaster
had al-Queda planned,
but an attempt to knock out
our military command.

For a brief instant,
we came together.
No Party, gender, race...
no division whatever.

Our world changed forever
on that late summer day,
revealed, a new enemy,
and come what may,

we who watched it
will always remember
the horror, the bravery
on the 11th of September.