11/11/11
even after ten years ...
I watch the families tell their stories
I hear the tapes of the last phone calls
I see the disaster of the twin towers
even after ten years
I am still glued to the television
and I still cry
I still meet a new person
and hear a new story
that I hadn't heard before
This years story
that went straight to my heart
is Patrick Lyon's
he was not even born on 9/II
but he lost his dad
a NYPD fireman
the letter that he wrote to the dad he never met
and read at the memorial
oh boy
my heart aches for the man he would
have been ... if he had only got to know his own dad
how different his life would be
he has had a good life
his mom loves him and even married a good man
that raised and took very good care of him
but it hits me to the core
to think how different Sam's life would be
without his dad
as emotional as I feel every September
I sometimes lose sight of the fact
that so many lives were changed so deeply
I think that I have been affected
i mean, i'm sad and i cry,
i have to wait in long lines at the airport
my cousin is fighting in the war
but really ...
I'm in my safe space of the midwest
of course I was affected, but not to the extent
that the course of my entire life was changed
I did not lose my husband, my son, my sister, my mom or my dad
but i do cry, every year, for those that did
