DON’T YOU EVER FORGET

Don’t you ever forget

The twin towers and how they gleamed

Majestic above the horizon

The captains greeting the team

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Commerce and industry bustled

Precariously chugging along

Until a maniacal effort

Made scars in the lands where we once belonged

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Don’t you ever forget

The smiling faces saying goodbye

They didn’t know it would be the last

When they hung their coffee cups to dry

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Early meetings and the creative process

Were well underway that day

Phone calls and emails and faxes

We all had no clue what was coming our way.

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Don’t you ever forget

What the world felt like before

Sweet Freedom and Liberty, America

We were naïve to what others endure

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In an instant our Peace was changed

With the confusion and terror that followed

Lines cut, cups dropped, explosions . . . then silence

No one imagined ever feeling such sorrow.

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Don’t you ever forget

The Unity that can be derived

From the good in all people,

And the sense of what’s right

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So go to your school, go to your desk

Pray to your God Almighty

For the Freedom you hold is precious and bold

Don’t Ever Forget The Sacrifices, alrighty?

-AEhill ©9/11/13