Nine years...

This is a small poem I wrote yesterday in memory of September 11, 2001.  It's been nine years, and I still have dreams of that day.


It's been nine years,
Yet the memories are fresh.
Many innocents killed
in a senseless attack by those
who seek to force their belief
on others.

These people claim that we
are wrong, that we are not
to pursue our own interests,
that those of Christian, Jewish,
Pagan and other faiths are
infidels who must be shown

the right way or killed for
heresy.  There are those who
say that the attacks were because
of homosexuality, and those who
say it is punishment from God for
stopping prayer in school.  I, however,

say that the attacks are because
a small group of hypocritical
people decided they know all the
answers, and will push them by
force.  May the lesson learned be
of acceptance and peace, and

let us not make those lives lost
be in vain!