Alone

I can feel myself retreating
I can feel my heart withdrawing
I know my soul is giving up
I can sense the tears aproaching
I hear the scolding comming
I crave the numbness as it comes nearer
I remember the times I was alone
I remember the pain
I crave the safty
When you’re alone nobody can hurt you
When you’re alone nobody can fix you
When you’re alone nobody cares
When you’re alone nobody notices
When you’re alone you don’t matter
When you’re alone you’re safe
I wait to be alone
I aim to be alone
I let the tears fall
I lock my gates and raise the drawbridge
This time I will remain alone

I remember watching it happen on the news before I left for school and knowing that this was going to be a turning point for our country. Then at school we really didn't do much, the news was on all day in every class room and my class had a discussion on why people do things like that. On why people hate America. When the fourth plane went down in the field, my class got to watch the panic on the new caster's faces, I think one of them even cried. I watched when the Towers fell and herd the horror in the announcer's voice as they informed us that the Pentagon had been hit too. That may not all be totally accurate but that is what I remember happening and when my family visited New York three years ago I got to see Ground Zero and I cried again. I remember 9-11 because I refuse to forget that not everyone is as safe as I am living here. I refuse to forget what it means to be an American. I refuse to forget those who gave up their lives, and those who still do, so that WE can have the right to say what we want and be who we want. I remember 9-11 because I refuse to forget.

Ray Stevens- Thank you