This Poem was Submitted By: Sandra J Kelley On Date: 2002-03-14 19:11:30 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Waiting Period

For the first time, while I was waiting for answers and getting only busy signals on the line into the state department, I wanted to buy a gun. And, I was on the other phone too trying to get information about my family in New York. A chorus of busy signals and on television, a split screen of three buildings burning or, pictures of a damaged plane in Pennsylvania and everywhere people listening to the buzz of phones that becomes the buzz of our anger Adn of our grief.  Etched now into our national mind, over shaddowing challenger and Kennedy is the image of a man stnading at the window of the tower then falling.  We fell with him for moments our hearts breaking with his body but, we did not die but, rally. For days, we did not sleep only pray and rage.  We learned the names of bunker busters and cheered our President who vowed not just revenge but justice. We drove our neighbors to blood drives, accoompanied them to grocery stores, supplied socks and buckets to  rescue workers in New York.  For days, we prayed for soldiers and flew flags where ever they would fit. We gathered in chat rooms to wait and speculate.  Finally, special forces soldiers were on the ground and national gaurd troops and reservists are called up.  Deployed to secret missions abroad, or  homeland defence.  My anger is modified, diluted by appreciation of their sacrifice thier youth, thier innocence, it is part of the sacrifice. And, I wonder if this is jsutice or, just one more sad, neccessary step.

Copyright © March 2002 Sandra J Kelley


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