Ten Years

I wrote this on 9/11 about 9/11. It's been on AllPoetry since then, but I haven't gotten the chance to transfer it until now.

Ten years have gone,
Passed us by,
And still we remember
As if it was yesterday.
I was so young,
A child at a tender age,
Too young to truly understand,
To truly comprehend
What exactly was going on.
I could only know,
Only understand,
only comprehend
That two planes
Had flown into two buildings.
I was young,
But still today I remember it all so clearly
As if it were only yesterday;
I remember everything I saw,
Everything I heard,
Everything I felt.
The pictures that were displayed
And the videos that were played,
The continuous news reports
Displayed on the small TV
In my third grade classroom
For us all to see and hear,
The images are still fresh and vivid in my mind;
The anger and the fear,
The pain and the sadness
They are still with me,
Though I didn’t understand why I felt them at the time.
It is as if it happened
Only yesterday.
It doesn’t seem possible
That already ten years have passed,
And to this day
The tears still flood my eyes
Forming an endless river at my feet.
I still feel so much anger,
Still feel so much fear,
So much pain,
So much sadness,
And I know the images,
And the feelings
Will never fade,
Never become any less vivid in my mind.
It was a time that no one will forget.
The sounds and the images,
The feelings
Will forever be,
No matter how much times passes us by.