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Array ( [sid] => 63358 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => September Scars [time] => 2004-09-11 11:29:59 [hometext] => For all who died on September 11th, for all they left behind, and for all of America. Bless. [bodytext] => three years were born and dwindled
since your lips last kissed the air
three eternities of your face
haunting our dreams
and o'er a thousand sunsets
have painted the skies and bled for you
since the last one that you saw
three Christmases, as well, have passed
with an empty tree-side space
where you should have, would have been
and your children, dear, are that much older
your spouse's eyes are shadowed still

and we
we are beginning to heal, maybe
we bled for you in shades
of red and white and blue
but slowly, slowly, the wound is closing
we are learning to smile again
we are learning to live as you'd want us to

but

there is a scar that will not fade

and, while for you we will smile,
for you we will never forget. [comments] => 7 [counter] => 205 [topic] => 38 [informant] => ShadowDaughter [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 20 [ratings] => 4 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Tributes )

September Scars

Contributed by ShadowDaughter on Saturday, 11th September 2004 @ 11:29:59 AM in AEST
Topic: Tributes

three years were born and dwindled
since your lips last kissed the air
three eternities of your face
haunting our dreams
and o'er a thousand sunsets
have painted the skies and bled for you
since the last one that you saw
three Christmases, as well, have passed
with an empty tree-side space
where you should have, would have been
and your children, dear, are that much older
your spouse's eyes are shadowed still

and we
we are beginning to heal, maybe
we bled for you in shades
of red and white and blue
but slowly, slowly, the wound is closing
we are learning to smile again
we are learning to live as you'd want us to

but

there is a scar that will not fade

and, while for you we will smile,
for you we will never forget.

Copyright © ShadowDaughter ... [ 2004-09-11 11:29:59]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: September Scars (User Rating: 1 )
by AspenGlow on Saturday, 11th September 2004 @ 12:47:49 PM AEST
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Beautifully said, thank you for sharing.

Re: September Scars (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Saturday, 11th September 2004 @ 01:30:02 PM AEST
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Thank you, Nora. May America never forget not only those that lost their lives but the families that suffered, and suffer still, from that tremendous loss.

Rita

Re: September Scars (User Rating: 1 )
by emospaztic on Saturday, 11th September 2004 @ 06:05:45 PM AEST
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This could quite possibly be the best memorial poem I've ever read. I felt chills and tears coming on at the same time. You continue to amaze me, darling.

-emo.

Re: September Scars (User Rating: 1 )
by Essentially9 on Saturday, 11th September 2004 @ 11:05:20 PM AEST
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excellent write and heart felt.

Re: September Scars (User Rating: 1 )
by Overstated on Sunday, 12th September 2004 @ 04:25:53 PM AEST
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thanks for sharing this piece with us all very emotional and heartfelf write excellent poem!!

Re: September Scars (User Rating: 1 )
by Silent-No-More on Sunday, 12th September 2004 @ 08:39:39 PM AEST
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We are all scarred... scarred, perhaps, in ways we are only beginning to understand.

I've not written of September 11th. I suppose, I just felt it was simply too enormous to put into words. You have managed it, though... with grace, with respect, with honestly. This is beautiful, Nora.

- SNM

Re: September Scars (User Rating: 1 )
by Cynthia on Tuesday, 21st September 2004 @ 08:23:25 PM AEST
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Nora, this is such a wonderfully written piece. May they always be remembered. *S* Cynthia

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