9/11/2019
Eighteen Years on...lest we forget!


Falling Man (Rest in Peace)

Where were you that day?
That day they wounded New York!
Who are they?
Will we ever know?
In the name of what god?
May I not go to His Heaven.

Falling man
Potential interrupted
Single act of desperation.
Hope abruptly flung out the window!
Another light extinguished.

Public face
Of private terror
Emblazoned image
Enduring.

You confronted death
In one graceful mid-air leap
Into the arms of Morpheus 
Flying man!

Plummeting towards earth
Head first
Icarus in reverse
You decided
You escaped
You determined your fate
Your choice not theirs
To leap - not fall!

You are man who choose
Man who leaped!
Brave man
Not falling man
After all!

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