Twin Towers
Terror in the name of God - distorted fundamentals
Holes a building with five sides, demolishes high twin towers.
People falling, people burning, heroes cruelly crushed
Beneath the weight of other humans� heartless evil powers.
History�s trail of human life is fouled with false religion;
It seems that good cannot exist without attendant evil.
Twin towers of faith but only one is built upon
A rock called God. The other�s false, it seems to be the Devil.
The eleventh day of the ninth month in year two thousand and one
Burns in collective memory of the land of the no longer free.
Under the cloak of duty to God or Allah the name doesn�t matter
The tyrants of old updated their hatred, displayed it for all to see.
We saw the towers fall. We sat transfixed in front of little screens.
A dream? A film? Was this some nightmare Hollywood story?
We watched twin towers perform twin rituals of burial and cremation,
As the tower of men�s distorted faith built on an extra storey.
Love in the name of God essential fundamentals;
Whole new buildings, hope resides, life�s garden filled with flowers.
Tyrants falling, passions burning, heroes we can trust
Beneath the flags of peace and love our spiritual twin towers.
� September 2001 Lionel Beck
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