MUCH LIKE TODAY

It was on a day

Much like today

Eleven years ago to the day

Out of the heavens

Steel birds swooped

And careened

Into the towers,

Into the seat

Of our military power

Into a field

And in those hours

Everything changed

Nothing ever again the same

Life is no longer a game.

Nearly three thousand killed

And a nation’s heart stilled

With sorrow and rage filled.

In the aftermath came

Cries to avenge the deed

And so began

The bloodletting.

Years of strife,

Many more thousands

Lost their life

Than ever died

On that dark, dark day

I hear everyone say

There was no other way.

But I sometimes wonder

As I hear war clouds thunder

And our world’s torn asunder

Why? And did those

Who loosed this whirlwind see

What the results would be?

Is their vision so skewed,

Their imagination so lewd

Or their angry God so mad

As to demand an action so bad?

Sadly I must let it be

There are no answers I can see

But to remember, and to pray.

-September 11, 2012

 Chip Bergeron