Friday, January 4, 2013

What I See In a Picture

Author's Note: I wrote this poem talking about what I think happened after 9/11

Sunlight
Sunlight.
It shone over the park.
It made the world seem happy.
We all knew it wasn't.

We spent our days mourning.
There was no reason not.
We lost family and friends.
We lost innocent people.

It was almost as if the sun was lying.
Telling us it was a good time.
It should know the truth though.
After the terrorist attack,
Nothing seems like it will ever be good again.

We cried and cried until we couldn't cry anymore.
The weeks went by.
Finally one day something changed.
"Why is everyone so sad?"
A brave young man asked.
"The people who passed would like us to be like the sun,"
"They would want us to shine and stay strong."
"They would like us to enjoy our lives and get to live them happily."
"They don't want us to cry over the past."
"They want us to live our lives."
"They now know that our lives can be taken away any second."

From then on,
We all lived our lives like there was no tomorrow.
We lived like the sun.
We shone and made people happy.
We did everything we could to keep the light into our future shining.

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