This Poem was Submitted By: Marsha Steed On Date: 2001-09-16 23:28:41 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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E pluribusunum

E Pluribus Unum Sept 11, 2001 My heart ached. I was tired of crying. Tired of hoping. Exhausted from feeling,  the day American's came  to my aid.  I stretched to place a coin into an offering,  and I read,  'E Pluribus Unum,  In God We Trust'.  I saw a lone man waving a flag on the overpass  of the freeway.  A young boy looking on as his father in a ponytail lovingly smoothed a flag bumper sticker  to the back window of their car.  A woman burying her face in the flag, and another whose tear sizzled against the wick of a flickering candle.  I listened to those who  too often argued bitterly about who is wrong and who is right say "we".  I too heard, a president who listened, and who prayed. I healed a bit, as exhausted rescuer choked up with  "I'm only doing my job." and I closed my eyes and hugged my child when he whispered, "We'll be better tomorrow mom." Tonight, I am not white or black, or yellow. I am not a Jew or a  Christian or a pagan.  I am not Japanese, or French or Danish. I am not a mourner or a survivor or even a rescuer. I am, an American just like them, just like you. In many, we are one. E Pluribus Unum.

Copyright © September 2001 Marsha Steed

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