9/11

The day the dust came,

and the people fell like rain,

pleading as they jumped

“Please remember my name!”

How can a skyscraper crumble

From impact with a passenger plane?

How can hate and religious zealotry

Make someone suicidally insane?

Furthermore, how can we know

That it won’t happen again?

I, for one, do not

want to replay that game.

Now we have a memorial,

But is that really a fair trade?

2,977 people spent their last moments praying to heaven,

2, 977 people died that September 11^th.

Twenty plus years later, is anything

different, or merely the same?

You say “Never Forget”,

I say never forget to change.