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2003-09-07

At first I thought they were showing video footage of the Oklahoma bombing, then suddenly I realize that it was live footage of what was happening right now! I was crushed and later I wrote this poem as a memorial...

Let Today...Be The Day

With a trembling heart I had to look
around our office the building shook
the blackest smoke had surround me
and out a window I just glanced to see

Within every wall I heard muffled screams
awake I thought from this strange dream
with a heavy roar and grumbling sounds
it's a horrible thought of how to get down
I am many floors up in this huge sky-rise
"God Help Us Please" and hear our cries
we think at first it's a great earth quake
and from this dream we all try to wake

The walls are rolling like an ocean's wave
and so we pray this will not be our graves
my mind races back to my family at home
as I fumble around searching for my phone
the air has turned thick it's harder to breathe
tears are flowing while my eyes cannot see
I found a phone but then I dialed too fast
as this building I hoped forever would last
oh and it doesn't matter now about my call
for the cord has come loose from the wall

I grasp my hands and now I pray very deep
"Dear Lord, Father of My Soul,
please keep...
my family and my friends from mourning pleas
let them think of the good while remembering me
because I can see now that these walls will cave in
and that this day forward my life comes to an end"
"Amen"

Crumbling down is the building and we all tend to slide
while I can feel something pressing up against my side
and I must have blacked out for I know nothing more
except a glowing light that shines through some door
and right now there's a hand reaching closer to me
while hearing a soft melody I look around to see
this is strange I thought on how it didn't take long
then I smile as I realize it's a rescue Angel's Song


So loved-ones of mine do not weep at my grave
God will bring us together in Heaven someday
and let today be the day to do a good deed
by just helping someone who's really in need
give all of your love you have plenty to spare
and remember us love in all of your prayers.

for the WTC victim's loved-ones
September 11, 2001

Copyright 2001 MaryJane Garrison
All Rights Reserved