9/11 Repercussion

This is mildly satirical and political, so if you are offended by those sorts of things then this is not for you.

I realized far too late today

That thirteen years back

Tragedy knocked our morals

Right off of sanity’s track.

 

Those planes crashed down

With vicious, calculated vigor.

War already on the brink,

All they did was pull the trigger.

 

For years we took a moment

To stop and honor them

Those thousands of lives cut short,

In a moment were condemned.

 

We must remember history

Lest it repeat again,

So tell me why we forgot our grief

But continue to pretend.

 

These battles that we fight

No longer count as self defense

And though we voted Bush in twice

We really aren't that dense.

 

So let’s try a new way to honor our dead

And bring our troops back home instead.

Author's Note

Not my absolute best work, but I felt I owed it to my country to write today.

Reviews

[@zeewhykay]

Not your ''absolute best work'', as you say, but definitely an inspired one that resonates truth. And one that stirs ideas and goes against the mainstream wind if you will. I admire that.

''Those planes crashed down, With vicious, calculated vigor.''

Calculated.
Well done.

[Ashira Macy]

Thanks so much!

[Coyote Poetry]

"So let’s try a new way to honor our dead
And bring our troops back home instead"
I agree. My step-dad, a World War two vet told me often. Let them kill each other off. You can't teach common sense, peace and kindness to madmen. One life of a USA man is it worth fighting in a nation where brother is killing brother? A powerful and though provoking poem my friend.
Coyote

[Ashira Macy]

Thanks so much Coyote, I am glad I am not the only one who feels this way.

[Coyote Poetry]

Many have this belief. This is a middle East Problem. USA is in debt 18 trillion dollars and no jobs. Old wise saying. Don't fix someone else house when your house is falling apart.

[GA]

good but which war .....war already on the brink

[Ashira Macy]

The war America brought to Iraq and Afghanistan a long time ago.