This Poem was Submitted By: Drenda D. Cooper On Date: 2001-10-17 20:52:05 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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If There Be But One God

Dust, rising in spires, they cried out from their grave Unjust.  Rocks, rubble, fires.  In the heart of a city, Dying flames lit the night skies as hearts of the brave Gave their all; gifts of love, never asking for pity. Through the grey, cloudy mist, now one voice crying out, As old souls and new, intermingled in space, Were shown what their lives and their deaths were about; Each unique in their own way, each having a place In the moment it happened.  Thousands ,all gone, Leaving hundreds of thousands behind them to grieve The great loss.  Children, husbands, and wives, all alone, To bear burdens we all pray that God will relieve In His time.  If there be but one God, then we share In the burden and shame of both evil and good. How carefully, then, must we sift out the Truth.  Beware Of vengeance, lest by our own God, we be misunderstood.  From that moment of error in our morning skies, Came the start of a war from which we cannot bend. The shackles of terror that Americans despise Must be swept from the earth before this fight will end.

Copyright © October 2001 Drenda D. Cooper

Additional Notes:
It took me a little while before the words came that I wanted to say about the tragedy and the war we are now in..


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