Contributor Series 1: 9/11
Tuesday Morning Rising
By R. Scott DeSena
(written September 7, 2009)
The writer witnessed these events while driving to work on the NJ Turnpike on 9/11.
Tuesday morning rising
Two shadows
Turnpike
Turn my mind to stone
Traffic screaming to a halt
Chills crawling to the bone.
Fires for days
Billowing clouds
Smoke-filled ash
Filled with lost souls
Crying for salvation
A new terror unfolds.
We will never be the same
Still looking for excuses
Still looking for blame
We are all losers
In a terrorist game.
Never forget the images
Never forget the tears
Never forget the innocent
Not in a million years.
R. Scott DeSena’s poetry (untitled and Velvet Air) has appeared in vox poetica in 2009.
Great rememberance poem. We will never forget that day. Those who were lost will always be in our hearts.