Mary Alice Bowles
We Must Remember
It’s been many years now since that horrendous day in September
when our world was attacked by strangers, but the evil we will
never forget! How could we?
Terrorist hijacked our planes and crashed into our twin towers
killed innocent people and filled us all with terror
and made a mess of our beautiful world
So many innocent lives were lost
what an awful cost!
Mothers empty arms
lay folded across her chest.
Daddy’s baseball glove now lays silent and still
Grandma’s kitchen still waits, white washed and clean.
But they shall not return, they have entered
heavens domain, forever happy in the arms of God
But what of their families, left behind;
Their treasures all lay buried in the rubbish
The rubbish of a mad mans plans
Plans to kill Americans and destroy our land, but little did he know
that God still held us safely in the palm of his hands
All those innocent lives were lost, but they have not died in vain
They gave their lives for our country, just like the soldiers in Vietnam
Just like the sailors at Pearl Harbor
Just like the death toll of World War One
These innocent people have not died in vain
The torture, the pain, the agony, all the sadness of
911 brought American together in a song,
The song of freedom; let freedom ring
It brought America together in prayer;
Oh God, please bless America
America united;
Neighbor helping neighbor
The prince and the pauper hand in hand.
Where presidents and kings kneel to pray
The world united, and it was good, if only
for a day
And oh, how I wish it could stay this way!
Today, it is to these people that we gather to pay tribute .
The victims and the families of 911
Innocent ordinary everyday average working people like us
who became our newest American heroes!
Firemen, policemen, nurses, taxi drivers, pilots, secretaries,
and I could go on forever and a day, because who in America
did 911 not touch in some way?
We have all been touched, and we must never forget this day!
Let’s bow our heads and pray! Let’s thank God for a nation where
freedom rings and God is still alive and he does his job so well!
“I ask you God to please keep
BLESSING America "!
©Mary Alice Bowles 2001
We Must Remember
It’s been many years now since that horrendous day in September
when our world was attacked by strangers, but the evil we will
never forget! How could we?
Terrorist hijacked our planes and crashed into our twin towers
killed innocent people and filled us all with terror
and made a mess of our beautiful world
So many innocent lives were lost
what an awful cost!
Mothers empty arms
lay folded across her chest.
Daddy’s baseball glove now lays silent and still
Grandma’s kitchen still waits, white washed and clean.
But they shall not return, they have entered
heavens domain, forever happy in the arms of God
But what of their families, left behind;
Their treasures all lay buried in the rubbish
The rubbish of a mad mans plans
Plans to kill Americans and destroy our land, but little did he know
that God still held us safely in the palm of his hands
All those innocent lives were lost, but they have not died in vain
They gave their lives for our country, just like the soldiers in Vietnam
Just like the sailors at Pearl Harbor
Just like the death toll of World War One
These innocent people have not died in vain
The torture, the pain, the agony, all the sadness of
911 brought American together in a song,
The song of freedom; let freedom ring
It brought America together in prayer;
Oh God, please bless America
America united;
Neighbor helping neighbor
The prince and the pauper hand in hand.
Where presidents and kings kneel to pray
The world united, and it was good, if only
for a day
And oh, how I wish it could stay this way!
Today, it is to these people that we gather to pay tribute .
The victims and the families of 911
Innocent ordinary everyday average working people like us
who became our newest American heroes!
Firemen, policemen, nurses, taxi drivers, pilots, secretaries,
and I could go on forever and a day, because who in America
did 911 not touch in some way?
We have all been touched, and we must never forget this day!
Let’s bow our heads and pray! Let’s thank God for a nation where
freedom rings and God is still alive and he does his job so well!
“I ask you God to please keep
BLESSING America "!
©Mary Alice Bowles 2001