What Right!

This poem written in personal frustration after the incident at Virginia Tech is really a poem about the evil and irrational acts of terrorism.  On this anniversary of the fall of the twin towers I am posting it again.  In me it is a reminder of many things that are good and evil in our land.  

What right have you to make us feel afraid

To trap us here inside our boundaries

And make us cease to trust our fellow man?

What ghoulish power joined with you today

To make us wince at breezes in the trees

and hide indoors in day as best we can?

Did anger, hate, distraught, or helpless rage

Convert you to a mindless, thoughtless fool

Determined to a violent good bye:

Your final act upon a blood bath stage

The devils advocate or demons tool

And leave behind a land too shocked to cry?

You serve us doubt in ladles round and deep

As hearts fly to the ones we hold so dear

Imagining what we cannot believe

And draw us out from needed peaceful sleep

To reconcile the senseless things we hear

With feelings rationale cannot conceive.

DW 2007

While the acts of terrorism on September 11, 2001 were horrendous unthinkable acts, several things became positively evident.  The people of these United States did some things the terrorists did not envision.  One they banded together with a common goal against their attackers.  Second, they turned in one for a few days, to their God for help, comfort, and wisdom.  Third, they proved themselves stronger than the enemy ever imagined they were.  Of course there were more outcomes, but these really gripped my heart and made me proud of my country.  There is much to remember and reconsider on this day.