Midweek Review
9/11 Imperatives
By Lynn Ockersz
Twenty years and counting,
The 9/11 horrors rage on,
With the first splurge of civilian blood,
Which was unleashed in New York,
Soon transcending time and space,
And spilling into and becoming a flood,
In fiercely contested Iraq and Afghanistan,
Where it triggered aftershocks all around,
But blessed are those who see,
In this worldwide Slaughter of Lambs,
A shameful hour for mankind,
And hear in the tragedy a rallying call,
To lose no time to come together as one,
And bring healing to angry hearts and minds,
That by designing demagogues of divisive strife,
Are tamely led along self-annihilative paths.