911  Remembered

"THE LADY"

(THE STATUE OF LIBERTY)

By:

Dana Holland, Staten Island NY

  I wonder what she thought

  As she stood there, strong and tall.

  She couldn't turn away,

  She was forced to watch it all.

  Did she long to offer comfort

  As Her country bled?

  With her arm forever frozen

  High above her head.

  She could not shield her eyes

  She could not hide her face

  She just stared across the water

  Keeping Freedom's Place.

  The smell of smoke and terror

  Somehow reduced her size

  So small within the harbor

  But still we recognized.....

  How dignified and beautiful

On a day so many died

  I wonder what she thought,

  And I know she must have cried.

    This was written on the evening of September 11, 2001