Never Forget

I avoided the media yesterday, well everyday actually. But I knew what horror had happened on 9/11. I knew that everywhere I would hear 'Never Forget' and I knew it would be followed by stories of what people were doing at that moment that has forever been seared into their minds.

Instead I chose to say a prayer for all the people lost in that tragedy. Instead I prayed that the souls had moved on and had not chosen to stay behind stuck in a state of confusion and loss. And then I thought about this Never Forget...

Is it never forget where you were at that moment in time

Is it never forget that due to religious or political misinterpretations (or misrepresentations)

that we are capable of such evil cruelty to one another

Is it never forget that in the face of such evil, we are truly capable of pulling together

to help one another, to reach through the rubble and stretch out your hand

and say 'here, let me help you'

Not once did someone say,

I'm sorry I can't help you because you're the wrong color, 

in the wrong financial bracket, the wrong political party, the wrong sex....

Not once did someone say,

I'm sorry I can't help because I might catch something,

or what's in it for me, or it'll cost you this much...

Is it never forget that on that day

thousands of miles away people were flocking to help

Is it never forget that on that day 

some media stations were actually talking about the good things people were doing

Is it never forget that on that day

strangers were talking to strangers, holding the door open on the bus, 

extending their hand to strangers and saying 'here, let me help you'

Is it never forget that under all the crunchy exteriors we are one spirit 

And it takes an act of cruelty to expose the truth

Is it then, never forget who you truly are and what we truly mean to one another

And that's what I'll never forget

(sorry about the soap box this morning)

heehee