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Remember: a 9/11 poem…eight years later
I originally wrote this poem 7 years ago on the first anniversary of September 11th. I’ve since been posting it on whatever blog, email or site I’m using at the time as a reminder, to myself, friends or anyone really. It’s become a habit for me, a habit I’ll try to never break. Because I will never stop remembering, I won’t forget that day. I know so many go on with their lives, it’s in the past, they choose not to delve into whatever emotions were stirred up that day. I choose to revisit them, whether by re-posting this little poem or by watching a documentary that day. I feel it honors those that lost their lives, even in just some small little way.
Everyone take the time, even if for just one small moment to remember what was lost that day, what changed and how our country was never the same again. Also remember the courage, the faith, the heroes and goodness that was displayed that day as well. God bless us all. So here’s the poem, once more:
Remember
One year passes.
Heaviness still lies beneath the change.
Cold ashes still wreak of sorrow.
Though thoughts have rested some, hearts
still beat wildly over broken memories.
Goodbyes too powerful to speak aloud.
Believe in the endless burning for all the
lost, innocent souls.
Do not release those images into the night.
Remember.
Sarah M. Hetland
UPDATE: also check out this beautiful and emotional website dedicated to those who died on United 93. I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before:
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