story9424.xml

story9424.xml

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2003-08-17

i have allready submitted my story....... i don't really want to add anything to it......... i just want to reach out..........
more than words can ever say
more than the time that whiles away
words cannot express the pain
felt as the anniversary approaches again.

each year that passes passes faster
and each time i think my emotions i'll master
but it isn't getting that much better
though i keep putting thoughts down in many a letter.

i try to share it to get it out,
but still haven't grasped what it was all about
my heart feels so much for those who are gone
that i still have much trouble moving on.

my memories and fears are still very clear
and i still can not think without shedding a tear
without reliving those moments again
without feeling the pain and the strain.

at this time of year my thoughts turn around
to the souls of the people, those that weren't found
my heart reaches out to their loved ones with tears
and i wonder how they get through each of the years

i feel for myself and the victims that time
i feel by surviving i comitted a crime
i thank god that this time it wasn't me
but i also wonder should it have been.

was i just lucky about my location
was it luck i was at the end of vacation
if it had been a day just before
then i wouldn't be here to chatter and bore.

i am thankful for every new day i've been given
and am sure that soon my spirit will have risen
but alas i am reliving again this year
that terrible feeling that terrible fear.

i wish i could turn back the clock of time
and erase forever this terrible crime
alas that is something that can not be done
and let's face it in the end nobody won.

i want to reach out to the whole of mankind
and put a new idea in their minds.
i want to tell them to think for a time
of the good they could do instead of the crime.

will we ever be able to just live as one
and enjoy our company just to have fun
we all love our lives and believe in our rights
so let's try to understand and no longer fight.

respect thy neighbour and live in peace
and the rest of our days you may ease
let nobody suffer these pains yet again
and let not the tears flood like the rains.