Where Were You on 9/11?

Where were you on 9/11

When the frightening news was reported--

When all over the country airline

Flights had to be aborted?

 

Was your TV show interrupted

With images on your TV screen--

Images that for many were

The scariest that they'd ever seen?

 

"At my office." "Driving to work."

"In my class." "At the store."

"Watching the kids." "At the gym."

"Just about to walk out the door."

 

When we got to a TV set,

We gazed at the screen in disbelief.

Minute by minute each news report

Compounded both our terror and grief.

 

It was hard to comprehend

The sudden loss of so many lives--

Children, friends and relatives,

Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives.

 

On that day, life for all of us changed.

Sadly, now there's no going back

To how we lived before that time.

When will there be another attack?

 

Terrorist threats had long existed.

That's a fact that we can't dispute.

However, we also have to fear

Domestic terrorists to boot.

 

Also, on a single day

The COVID virus has been the cause

Of more deaths than on 9/11.

That number ought to give us pause.

 

Since 9/11, twenty years

Have passed, yet threats to our lives don't cease.

Question: Can we preserve our freedoms

And also achieve lasting peace?

 

-by Bob B (9-11-21)