In Silence & Disbelief

 
Today, is not about politics
it is not about terrorism
 
today
it's simply about remembering
“the Innocent people who died”
 
for the ordinary people
who were at work
earning an honest dollar
and for those
enjoying a day of out
tourists, in the Big Apple
 
It's for those who never got to see
their mum’s or dad’s again
son’s and daughter’s
husbands, wives
sisters, brothers
now missing from christmas photos
aunties, uncles
blood relatives
best friends 
all these people taken
In a man-made catastrophe
 
this is for every single
emergency service, man and women
who died doing the job they loved
skills, driven by their passion to help others
 
and to those emergency workers still here
who wake every morning
still living the constant nightmare
waking in a cold sweat
to the now tuneless birds
outside their bedroom windows
 
It is for those
innocent souls on the planes
who only had moments to phone loved ones
saying goodbye
with love, nothing but love heard in their voices
 
it’s for a nation
who will mourn this dark day forever
a skyline missing its twin towers
grief that only first-hand
can really ever be understood
a lifetime of sorrow
questions of, what if's
and all for what?
 
as I write this, I myself remember
where I was and what I was doing
on the other side of the pond
on what I can only describe as the day
the lights of the world went out
 
where desperate screams echoed into space
as death and dust covered the great city
and indeed the world
 
 
let us be united,
united for those beautiful people
who were cruelly taken in a truly wicked fate
 
I remember that day, as if it was yesterday
the day the world lost its light and its hope
 
The day the world stopped and stared...

in silence and disbelief.   

9/11/2001.