Alas!
September 11, 2001 AD
The Sun and the Moon are near collapse,
The civilization suffered bloody attack,
The World is groaning,
The Earth is nightmare!
The citizens from more than ninety countries,
More than three thousands elites.
The horrible planes,
Challenging the peace.
you died for grievance,
It has already been fifteen years.
No smile in the lower world
you please listen to it carefully:
New York City, Washington, D.C. , on the morning of the day,
Bright sunlight,
Deep blue sky,
White cloud floating,
Lots of traffic,
The same situation as normal,
You may board a plane for San Francisco,
Or board a plane for Los Angles,
Or enter your offices,
Or are still in the elevators,
The claws of horror are approaching you.
The ghosts of death are approaching you.
The terrorists such as Atta, Jesse and Omari,
They are the public enemies of the people in the world!
They hijacked the passenger planes with their evil hands,
They changed the directions and hit with evil desire.
The disaster is descending upon the Northern Building of the World Trade Center from the Heaven,
The Southern Building of the World Trade Center as if it had suffered thunderbolt,
It started flame in the Pentagon,
Pennsylvania crash vertically collision
The Twin Towers are still burning
The strong smoke and flame are spilling toward the Heaven.
Two big holes are two bloody openings,
The tongue of fire is turning around and it is really urgent!
The belongings are falling down one after another.
Some people jumped the floor in order to escape,
The police went upstairs
The fireman went upstairs
The volunteers came from everywhere,
The medical people showed up with First-aid Kits.
At this time,
The concrete iron of the building were burning red,
The support of the building could not sustain it.
In a flash,
The Twin Towers became two elevators,
They were rushing downward and hit the ground zero!
The dust was moving like the flood water along the streets,
The Twin Towers, more than 400 meters in height disappeared.
All of a sudden, the time stopped,
The day became completely dark all of a sudden.
The people whose heads were full of dust,
They had hard time running outside,
The people who had blood all over their bodies,
They struggled and tried to run outside.
The fire trucks were fleeting with the sirens on,
The ambulances whizzed by and the overhead lights on.
The innocent people,
The innocent people,
How come you encounter such destiny?
How come you encounter such destiny?
In a split second, the tragedy happened,
The pains last forever!
The young police disappeared,
The retired police came to look for their sons:
“where are you, my boy?
“Where are you, my boy?!”
The young firefighters disappeared,
The retired firefighters came to look for their sons:
“Where are you, my boy?
Where are you, my boy?!”
Lin Wei Min,
He is a proud police officer who had been buried,
He is an extraordinary person who had saved others first.
After the World Trade Center suffered attack,
The buildings are shivering.
What he had been concerned most is other persons,
He put his own safety were forget about.
He climbed up the stairs floor by floor,
He walked upstairs to 44th floor.
The building will collapse at any time,
He held the women with disabilities and came down stairs quickly.
Heard the sound “Band”!
The building turned into a small hill.
The No.1 Building in New York disappeared,
Innumerable lives buried in rubble.
Lin Wei Min lifted his big hands,
Departed from the death.
People dragged him out of the rubble,
He kept nodding with smile.
Zeng Zhe
You are a brave fighter,
You are a lifesaver.
You work in the bank of New York,
You have other people’s safety in your mind,
When you learned that the plane had hit the building,
You ran as fast as an arrow to the Twin Towers .
You told your mother by phone:
“I will go to save the people!”
You told your girlfriend by phone:
“I will go to save the people!”
Fox TV Station,
Shot your shadow of the last ten seconds.
Your girlfriend,
Full of tears;
Your mother,
Wanted to commit suicide several times:
The worst luck in lives,
The older people mourned the younger ones!
Yuewei Deng ,
Biemel,
Bingham,
Greg,
Todd,
Barnett,
You face the terrorists,
You are not fear their bombs and weapons.
You had seen through their conspiracy of changing the direction,
You defeated their scheme to attack the ground.
Yuewei Deng informed the Ground about the hijack,
The civil aviation stopped all the passenger planes;
Todd waved his hands and yelled:
“Are you guys ready?
Come on!”
He led the passengers,
Marched toward the terrorists.
Beimel,
Bingham,
Greg,
Barnett,
You do not feel shocked when you face the disaster,
With both wisdom and courage,
You used your fists to engage in life-to-death struggle against the hijackers,
You thus avoided a even greater disaster.
You raise the banner of counter-terrorism.
You are the brave warriors that defeated the evils.
You are really a group with justice,
You are the Prometheus in the new millennium!
Time is like running water,
Time is leave their marks,
The citizens from more than ninety countries,
More than three thousands elites,
you left us,
It has already been fifteen years,
We miss you,
Your family miss you.
Agosto,
Your work on the 71st Floor,
Where were you when the First Tower collapsed?
Your son, Maldonado was looking for you everywhere.
He said: “I want to save my mother!
I want to save my mother!”
He screamed and hurt his throat,
His voice turned coarse completely;
He scratched his fingers,
The blood on the ten fingers are flowing down.
There is no answer from your cell phone,
Your office has been collapsed.
He has been to all the hospitals in New York City.
“Mom, where have you been?
Mom, where have you been?!”
Bingham,
Your mother felt pains beyond description!
You bid farewell on the plane that had been hijacked:
“I love you, mom!”
The more I love you, the more I feel pain,
She often can hear your last a farewell.
She felt pain extremely and said:
“I am willing to exchange my life for your life!”
Every day, now she cries a lot,
She woke up crying in her sleep every night.
She got scared when she saw the flying birds,
She is heart-broken when she approaches the Building.
Stephen and Katharine,
You can rest assured in the underworld!
Your wife—Trine,
Your husband— Casey,
They miss you,
They still love you.
They got to know and love each other,
They were already together,
They were raised together,
Your two sons and one daughter.
Your son, Steven J. and Matt,
They have become good brothers,
They are together everyday all the time,.
Your daughter Kaliqia,
She gets along with them very well,
They help each other,
You do not need to worry about.
You should rest assured,
They will grow up happily,
You should believe it,
They will always remember you!
Allen,
There is a happy thing after the great disaster,
Six days after you passed away,
Your wife gave birth to a son Gaby for you.
He is lively,
He is cute,
Your wife Jacob said,
She is still loving you,
She will love you forever!
Jacobs,
Set up a “Smile in September” foundation,
For the purpose of,
It will arouse people to remember you guys!
Silvia,
Where is your body?
Your husband John’s body has been found,
How come you left something regretful at last?
Please have your two go the Heaven,
Enjoy the tranquility over there!
However, your mother Maria,
She can’t live without you.
She miss you all the time,
She can see you when she closes her eyes,
She can see you when she goes to bed in the evening.
George,
You left us so suddenly,
Your daughter Hilary,
She is crying every day,
She heard what you said in the elevator,
Wait for the rescue in the elevator,
What they got after waiting is,
Death and separation!
The TV in which the Southern Building of the World Trade Center collapsed,
It can never disappear before her eyes.
It is terrible to lose parents,
Not to mention we see you disappear with our own eyes?
She can’t accept the cruel facts,
Psychological trauma is hard to heal.
Now she only sees the cooking program in TV,
To distracted her attention .
She does not like cooking,
However, it never mentions “September 11”in TV.
The four-year-old Julian,
He can’t see his father,
Sometimes, he screamed,
Sometimes, he became silent.
The two-year-old Galet,
With his father’s picture in his hand,
He cried for his “Dad” when he walks back and forth.
The three-year-old Little Zoe,
He asked his mother everyday,
“Dad did not come home,
Does he have a key?
The Statue of Liberty is shed its tears,
The Manhattan Island is sighing
The five continents lit the lights at the same time,
Wish your soul rest at peace.
Seven billion people march forward shoulder by shoulder,
Lift the sharp weapons of counter terrorism.
The past is past,
Goodness and evils in the future will be rewarded and punished,
The evils will be annihilated eventually,
The flag of justice will be plug in all over the world!
Let the miss of the friends and relatives,
Turn into a bridge of memory,
Let the victory news of counter terrorism,
Comfort your ssoul !
Rest in peace!
Rest in peace!
September 2019
Note: All the information cited in this poem refers to the information at the time of occurrence of September 11 tragedy.
Author’s profile:
Hongxing Zhu, male, scholar, poet, thinker, born in a famous historical and cultural village in China-Xucun, Huozhou City, Shanxi Province . He graduated from the Department of Political Science & History of Shanxi Normal University in 1984.He received a bachelor degree in history.
Mr. Zhu published six books such as “Global Village”, and he created global village theory. Letters from more than twenty heads state praising his book.
Mr. Zhu is now the president of the Global Village Peace Organization. He will devote himself to the cause of world peace tirelessly and contribute all his strength to the building of a better future for mankind.
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