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Post by rosa on Sept 11, 2009 7:46:01 GMT -7
Had a difficult time figuring out where to put this...."national"...where? Politics? World? What about terrorism that has gone unchecked around the world for decades? For eight years now, we have been unwilling partners in the grief of millions who have been harmed or who have died because of political and religious barbarism. God Bless all of the victims of the WTC attack, the Pentagon attack and the brave people who sacrificed their lives defending our country in Pennsylvania. God Bless their families, and God Bless all the citizens of this planet who abhor violence and look to better ways to bridge our differences. www.jontzen.com/tribute.htm
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Post by rosa on Sept 11, 2009 14:53:17 GMT -7
September 11, another year -
They are not here. And we, we are the Others Who walk by ourselves unquestioned in the sun Which shines for us and only for us. For They are not here. And are made known to us in this great absence That lies upon us and is between us Since They are not here. Now, in this kingdom of summer idleness Where slowly we the sun-tranced multitudes dream and wander In deep oblivion of brightness And breathe ourselves out, out into the air- It is absence that receives us; We do not touch, our souls go out in the absence That lies between us and is about us. For we are the Others, And so we sorrow for These that are not with us, Not knowing we sorrow or that this is our sorrow, Since it is long past thought or memory or device of mourning, Sorrow for loss of that which we never possessed, The unknown, the nameless, The ever-present that in their absence are with us (With us the inheritors, the usurpers claiming The sun and the kingdom of the sun) that sorrow And loneliness might bring a blessing upon us.
Edwin Muir
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