'Lyrical September' Explained

Fundamentalism seduced desperate minds

on September 11, 2001,

collapsing two towers to ash.

Falling alongside the glass and the blood

was a generation's intimacy and innocence.

 

Hatred was bred by ignorance

and acted in freedom's name, in twisted form,

freeing its' holders from

American Ideals. The indemnity,

the cost, of that desecrated freedom -

3,000 innocent lives and an indelible cityscape.

 

The towers, then ash leading to the Hudson,

carried utterly infallible collateral loss

in this fundamental war.

 

The flag from the Towers, tattered, alive,

waving in the wind before all &

without care for race, temperament or creed,

the emptiness left in the New York sky -

they scream, demanding remembrance

of the firemen, the heroes, the lost American sons

running up the Tower stairs

while others knowlingly fled from the fire.

Deep in our psyche is lodged the image, the pride,

the sacrifice, never to be faded, never to be lost.