Five Years...
Sep. 11th, 2006 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumPushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and t.v.s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought Id need so many people
We will never forget, but what is it we are actually remembering?
The government, I think, wants us to remember the anger and the fear, but what I want to remember is the good was exhibited during that time.
The strangers that reached out to each other.
The many anonomous people who did what they could to help out those in pain or sorrow.
The police and fireman who did their duty, because it was their duty, and died for it.
The goodwill of people throughout the world who grieved with us.
Despite the evil we witnessed on 9/11/2001, we also had the opportunity to see the goodness people have within themselves. We may have seen the devil in the smoke of the towers, but we saw God in the actions of many, many people.
And that's what I'm going to remember.
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and t.v.s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought Id need so many people
We will never forget, but what is it we are actually remembering?
The government, I think, wants us to remember the anger and the fear, but what I want to remember is the good was exhibited during that time.
The strangers that reached out to each other.
The many anonomous people who did what they could to help out those in pain or sorrow.
The police and fireman who did their duty, because it was their duty, and died for it.
The goodwill of people throughout the world who grieved with us.
Despite the evil we witnessed on 9/11/2001, we also had the opportunity to see the goodness people have within themselves. We may have seen the devil in the smoke of the towers, but we saw God in the actions of many, many people.
And that's what I'm going to remember.
