Empty Sky....9/11

[JackDallas]

Empty Sky

Shimmering spires of glass
and steel
in muted testimony, rest
In silent shrouds
and shattered dreams,
to tell a nation’s worst
and best
Enjoined in hope
and bitter will

Beneath the maelstrom
cold and dark
strong hearts and weak
together lie,
where once I stood
in wondered awe
and traced your lines
into the sky

Despair you not
my nation’s soul
The hand of God
restraineth thee
And comfort brings
and solace gives
to broken lives
and those still free

Here in this place,
now lost to time,
where heroes die
and mothers cry
where now I stand
in wondered awe
and trace your lines
in empty sky

Jack Dallas 2002

 

[JackDallas]

Empty Sky

Shimmering spires of glass
and steel
in muted testimony, rest
In silent shrouds
and shattered dreams,
to tell a nation’s worst
and best
Enjoined in hope
and bitter will

Beneath the maelstrom
cold and dark
strong hearts and weak
together lie,
where once I stood
in wondered awe
and traced your lines
into the sky

Despair you not
my nation’s soul
The hand of God
restraineth thee
And comfort brings
and solace gives
to broken lives
and those still free

Here in this place,
now lost to time,
where heroes die
and mothers cry
where now I stand
in wondered awe
and trace your lines
in empty sky

Jack Dallas 2002

Remembering that day. I was in Phoenix and I remember the empty sky around Sky Harbor Airport which normally had dozens of airplanes coming and going in all directions. It was like a scene from Mad Max.

 

[Bo-4]

We just made a nice statue out of a beam chunk.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/09/11/2754126/boises-911-memorial-finally-taking.html

 

[Figjam]

Remembering that day. I was in Phoenix and I remember the empty sky around Sky Harbor Airport which normally had dozens of airplanes coming and going in all directions. It was like a scene from Mad Max.

...I remember it too. I was getting ready to go to SFO for a flight to Portland when we got a call about "a plane flew into the twin towers" - for the next several hours we sat and watched the news in total disbelief - for the following week, there was nothing but birds in the sky - it was surreal....

 

[JackDallas]

...I remember it too. I was getting ready to go to SFO for a flight to Portland when we got a call about "a plane flew into the twin towers" - for the next several hours we sat and watched the news in total disbelief - for the following week, there was nothing but birds in the sky - it was surreal....

Yes it was surreal. I went to my office and sent everyone home for the day. I went around all day like I was in a trance. Hatred for the bastards who did it finally snapped me out of it.

 

[JackDallas]

We just made a nice statue out of a beam chunk.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/09/11/2754126/boises-911-memorial-finally-taking.html

Are you the bald headed fat guy who appears to be in charge?

 

[Bo-4]

Are you the bald headed fat guy who appears to be in charge?

Lol.. no Jack. Might be Charcat -- he lives here too!

 

[JackDallas]

Lol.. no Jack. Might be Charcat -- he lives here too!

I didn't think so; you look too much like Ted Cruz to be that guy.

 

[Bo-4]

I didn't think so; you look too much like Ted Cruz to be that guy.

OMG.. you consistently.. err OCCASIONALLY make me LMAO!!

 

[Dawg]

I sat at the TV for almost a week in awl..........thought it had to be a movie......but it was real..........now I have two 9/11's to be in awl of.........second 9/11 attacked again today------9/11............Benghazi. Apparently WE THE PEOPLE were lied straight faced too......for weeks.........where's the justice promised------

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-linked-to-benghazi-attack/