- of peace and war

placid blue sky

white marshmallow clouds

dance in harmony with

a cool fall breeze

with a swift and might blow

a city is paralyzed

blazing sky, fire engine red

charcoal clouds

strangle with fury

choking

autumn breeze

The pistol's barrel

oozing with smoke

started the race for equality

But

what was untold

was that it was uphill

Society's hate and scourge had formed a hill

a hill

a hill that would with all hope block People from Equality

But coloured Humanity hit the hill with the greatest of speed and zeal

for the splendid prize on the other side

The rocky lower hill of

segregation

Jim Crow laws

and hate

slowed their start

but they kept going

going without violence

but with a voice

a song

a stand for what was verily right

Many battles of words and law have been won

but the hill they climb is not half gone, but

they

us

we

must go forth together

to meet the down hill victory for equality.

Black thunderous clouds of sorrow

Engulf a nation of strength

Of unity

The red white and blue

Diffuse through the air

Permeating through the skin of

Every person assimilating them to

America through feelings of sympathy and love

The music made from the screams

Of dying people

The music made from the crying

Of the newly orphaned children

The harmonious discord of the

Melody of laughter life and love

Mixed with fear hate and ignorance

Ignorance

Difference

That's what fuels the fire

Blazing up around our children

The children who have so much

In store

So much ahead

Now they only see dead bodies piled upon bodies

Like the former pillars of New York

The spirit of America

Now lies crushed

Under rubble and ash

Smoke unsettling

Smoke rising and falling

Surrounding the survivors and the dead I say

We capture Osama and make him view the death he has caused

For he represents everything that is ignorant

Osama Bin Laden

Ku Klux Klan

The third Reich

All have three word titles all

Represent stupidity and ignorance

Which rejoices joyously in the pointless

Death of the human race

A person is a person is a color is a religion is a man is a woman is a child is a daughter is

a son is a mother is a father is an executive is a teacher is a priest

Now I'm the preacher

The whole world a congregation

If only we could come to a common

Point of universal understanding

The common man being so uncommon due to his beliefs

Beliefs

Only one word

Yet so many interpretations

What's your addendum?

To the standard principles in

Which one should live should

Practice their beliefs

For beliefs are just as

Universal as understanding

And as I will never

Understand the hate behind

The September 11th attacks

Neither will most Muslims

Nor most Jews

Nor most African Americans

Nor most Caucasians

Nor most human beings

A human being is a white is a black is Spanish is a Chinese is an Arab

An Arab is a terrorist is a man with dark eyes and skin

Damn my point proven within that statement

And if I didn't reverence my knowledge and

Understanding of the common definition of

Love and understanding so high I might

Just believe that

For I used to believe a lot of

Things

Innocence

Humanity

Compassion

Love

I still do believe

You just have to look

Look past the common stereotype

Of uneducated people

Of ignorant people

Ignorance Ignorance

Only education can stop ignorance

Give me time and I will

School you

The fireman's faces show their love.

Big, strong men hurt beyond belief

their loss unimaginable.

But they understand;

A Calling their dead heard too

They would say it was their job. humbly.

Martyrs

We proclaim Heroes All.

They are bound together, a brotherhood living and dead.

Dealing in danger, called to Service. Resolute.

We see them now, working to exhaustion - Grief anesthetized.

How do we rescue them?

911

World Trade Center

Who do the firemen call when their hearts are ashes?

ouroboros-the snake swallowing its own tail

humanity-the monstrous collective that is devouring itself from the ground up

crucified and bastardized lies Christ upon the White House steps

only money graspers left in the once great house

but few're those left that hear him truly

misguided causes only left herein

misguided causes only shoot heroin

what once was pure now is tainted

left to humanity only this arose

the valley's grave made of sludge from mines

the pond suffocated by cement and cars

the forest burnt alive with its self as stake

the stream now choked and drowned

hell on earth? no only home