11th of the 9th

by Keg - Leo

Here's a number
9
The month it occured
What about 11
The day it happened
and don't forget 8.49
when it began.

A city in ruins
A nation in pain
A world in fear
of the cowardly brilliance of the new warfare
A true marker in our Worlds history
The Stuff that brings forth change.

And change to what...War?
Here are two numbers
1914 and 1939
And here are three words
Falkans, Vietnam, Gulf
And here's a figure 
4000
or so it was the last time I heard
are we to shed more blood?

And yet this Hollywood framed event
Which shook the very powers of a nation
are horrific to us all
And are unlike the teachings from that religion we blame
Let us look not at punishing those responsible
But from preventing it to ever happen
and to bring a world of peace
true peace
Where we as a humanity can unite 
And live in harmony
And then we can eradicate that which taints humanity so.

Can you remember numbers?
1914
1939 
and now the 11th of the 9th, 2001

Birth sign: Leo
Date created: 2001-09-18 17:44:39
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:45:04
Poem ID: 65012

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