All Fades To Black

 

(September 11, 2001...don't forget, everyone. Don't forget)

 

Tangled up in confusion and taunted by time

We move on

Once secure, once greedy, once power-hungry

All that we were once upon a time

How were we to know the future?

 

Then it ripped through the clouds

We couldn't stop it

It went by too fast

Like an angel who lost himself in the vast blue

It cut the sky like a blade and darkness dripped down

 

Frightening? Indeed

Stumble, yes we have stumbled

After all, we were lost in a blanket of black

No door, no window

And, for a brief moment, it seemed hope fluttered out of the room

 

The light sprouted...and another!

And another and another and another!

Darkness was gone before we knew it

We learned something

Lights dance in triumph

For now we remember what we shouldn't have forgotten

 

Tangled up in confusion and taunted by time

We still move on

Carrying this valuable, unforgettable lesson

 

Even when it all fades to black

Somewhere in the middle of that dark room

Someone will have the matches

And another will have the candle.

 

Written: 9/11/02...365 days later

 

Copyright 2002: CT

 

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