In Remembrance of September 11, 2001

In Remembrance of Sept 11, 2001, I have decided to post a poem that I wrote 9 years ago.



A poet by the name of
Edgar Allan Poe
Once wrote a poem entitled
"The Doomed City ( The City In The Sea)"
As I look back on the day of
September 11, 2001, while reading the poem,
I realize that many of these
Verses can be used to describe the
Events of September 11, 2001.

"Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne
In a strange city, all alone,
Far down within' the dim west-
And THE GOOD, And THE BAD,
And THE WORST, And THE BEST
Have gone to their ETERNAL REST."

This verse in itself describes the
Results of the events
As it talks about lifes that were lost

"There shrines, and palaces, and towers
Are-not like anything of ours-
O! no- O! now- ours never loom
To heaven with that ungodly gloom!
Time - eaten towers that tremble not!
Around, by lifting winds forgot,
Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie."

This verse sums up the image
That we see when we look
At where the towers once stood,
"The melancholy waters lie."

"There open temples - open graves
Are on level with the waves."

This is used to describe
The ones who have yet to be found
Their bodies lay in " open graves
Level with the waves."

"But lo! a stir is in the air?
The wave! there is a ripple there!"
"Hell rising from a thousand thrones
Shall do it reverence,
And death to some more happy clime
Shall give his undivided time."

This last verse describes
The neverending war that
Has been brought forth
Because of the cowardly
Acts of September 11, 2001.