| a poem by Erica Pilgram |
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| I wish there was a medicine for this pain Medicine helps numb pain But this is a pain that medicine can't help After the first plane, Everyone felt sadness and confusion After the second, Everyone felt rage and hatred After ten months, Most people forgot But the victims' families, They will never forget Most will never forgive either That's what's the saddest for me Now there is endless anger People forgetting compassion in their rage Everyone donned on flags Pins, shirts, belts Putting flags on their cars Thinking they were patriots Patriots don't forget Patriots forgive Now everyone remembers Pain, sadness, anger This is how it will be for years to come Flags coming back out Interviews, and news reports All constant reminders Everyone thought they would never forget that every day they would remember when they got up But they didn't they just forgot It's like they need a post-it note Or a visual reminder It's not that their images are gone, it's just that everyone tried to move on Past the pain Past the anger that's the only way they think they will get through it But year after year they will just renew it I found that out this year I feel anger no more, only sadness the only way to make it go away is to forgive Just forgive |
| FORGIVE |
| "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." --Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."-- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "A new command I give you: Love one another." -- Jesus |
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| Page created September 11, 2002 |