Day of Remembrance
September 11th
All our lives we will remember
One year later we still wander,
Yet risen from the smoking embers
September 11, 2002
something of that clear, bright day
when the sky rained human ashes
and took our innocence away.
stunned by threat to hope's empire.
Walls still fall around us, burdened
with the weight of flesh and fire.
compassion, phoenix-like, still stands.
For we best honor those who perished
by joining ours to other hands.
Copyright © Amy Belding Brown