contents & site map	Written after the tragedy in New York and Washington DC, September 2001
home page	To the survivors of the tragey, and those who lost loved ones, I wish much strength and peace
	Contents The Day The World Went Boom Sad Memories
poetry main
youth stuff
guestbook
links
contact
visitors

The Day The World Went Boom
Craig D Smith, 11 September 2001

Sunshine bright, new day dawns
Hustle and Bustle, nobody warns
Trees blowing, flowers showing
Laughing, glowing, nothing knowing

No clouds, but darkness
No thunder, but rain
No storm winds blowing
No lightning, just pain

Boom, Gloom, Doom
Crying, Dying, Lying, Denying
Frown, Down, Groun’
Screaming, tears streaming

Shocked people expatiate in their doom
Then anger sets in and there appears a reversed gloom
Darkness and night prevails
Winds of destruction with forces of gales

Why? Who? How?
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but now!
Armageddon – Is that you?
Just what are you going to do?

Sad Memories

How I awoke this morning, as happy as could be
Because I dreamt you had smiled a smile for me
My heart was lost in joyous mood
I’d never felt so good
Reality told me I had only dreamt
And knew then the mood was spent.

I cried aloud because my heart
Just could not understand
That suddenly one day we’d part
No more I’ll hold your hand.

Not true I say – it cannot be
I cannot be alone
I started hearing things, you see
Like ringing of the phone.

I lift the phone, it isn’t you
I feel they’ve done me wrong
I tell myself it isn’t true
I wish the dream went on.

I know that time will heal my hurt
But I’ll still shed a tear
When I think of that sky of smoke and dirt
And know that you’re not here.

C.D. Smith
15 September 2001

©2001, c.d.s.