we will never forget 9/11 / how can we forget 11/9
when terror descended / when hatred triumphed
that terrible morning / in the wee hour of three
as we watched in horror / it rendered us speechless
the towers collapsing / our worst fears were confirmed
but we were not broken / the truth was revealed
on that fateful day / we were us versus them
we banded together / now a nation divided
held hands with strangers / forced to look in the mirror
we sang kumbaya / to face our dark demons
we talked about love / emboldened, enraged
promising to remember / reliving past battles
but how soon we forgot / to the winners the spoils
what makes us great, America / First, they declared
our founding principles / we’ll build a great wall
our common ideals / shutter our borders
of life and liberty, / to keep them all out
the pursuit of happiness / the foreigners, the hungry, the poor
for all who call this nation home / if you are the other
that’s why we gather to remember their names / we don’t want you here
so we will never forget them and / how can we forget
who we were when calamity struck / the day a madman of privilege declared
One America, Red, White and Blue / let’s make America Great
~kat
A cleave poem (three poems in one. Read the first Column in standard print as one poem, read the second column in bold print as another and finally read across the entire line for the third.)
like mercury colliding... 