| A Requiem By Sherye Hanson Wet American flags hang from car windows, Cars honk to show they love America, No one knows how to deal with terror. We see pictures of turbaned men, someone kills a man wearing a turban wrong religion, wrong man. We hear about fanatic Arabs a Christian Arab is killed. wrong religion wrong man Women wearing Muslim veils are pulled into traffic wrong sex. wrong person. How do we even know Bin Laden did it there was no arraignment, no trial no court no jury. Does hate replace life? Does war erase terror? We mourn more lives than we can imagine As many as live in a small town, Two tall towers the biggest and the best of the city fall. The center of our defense is defenseless against the terror soldiers die in the Pentagon is that possible? The weapons are commercial aircraft We use everyday to bring us to work to school to play. One plane crashes far from the target filled with brave men who sacrificed their lives to save another symbol full of more innocent lives. Now we must stand in line and worry, will they let me on or think my needles are a weapon? Dark days follow. No flights. Then comes poison in the mail. something to arouse our deepest fears. Are we not safe anywhere? The charities collect by using our sorrow, then they keep and do not share with the needy everywhere. Does death in Manhattan mean no one else suffers? Oh God, where are you now? Did we do something to anger you? Oh nations of the world We are the most powerful. Are we the best? Do we deserve your envy and the anger of those who want to live in a perfect world ruled by Allah and his most ardent worshippers people who believe that death is too good for the infidels of commerce and Macreligion? A. Lincoln blamed the civil war on years of enslaving innocent lives. Can we blame the terror war on world trade low wages and exploiting the earth? None of the whys will make a difference. We must mourn, We must weep, We must bury our dead, Whose bodies were buried beneath the rubble of thousands of tons of steel. We now live in a different world. with less trust and more fear. We have no answers only questions. Will American remain land of the free? Or will we live in a prison we built for ourselves? |
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| Imagine..John Lennon |