A Melting Pot

A melting pot!

On September eleventh, 2001

on the one hundred and seventh

to the 100th floor of the

World Trade tower

during that fateful hour

when collapse was imminent

a mass of perhaps forty-five souls

just victims yet to be

huddled in the smoke and gas

coughing and praying and gasping

for air no longer available
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Arab, Jew, Indian, Afro-American

Chinese..Japanese, Egyptian...

Italian, Swedish, American..New Yorkers

and many more unknown

even still all these years later

a multi-racial, ethnic mix

working as one together

for just those few moments

with one common goal
~
to escape what truly would be

in just minutes

a melting pot

of mass proportion

that would include

their small slice

of humanity represented

on those floors

in that space and time
~
a gathering humbled by
t

heir own mortality

realizing at that instant

that death is the great equalizer

none of them were more important

then the rest and would as one

be enveloped together

forever in the ashes and debris
~
braver souls, not by chice

they had none had already leapt

in a plunge to eternity

minus whatever vast

amount of floors passed,

while prayers of all faith ascended

no one judged another man's beliefs

at this time

no one felt that their God was better

in fact some wondered where he was
~
some talked to families

on cell phones that no longer annoyed

any of those around them

with the loud chatter

yelling to be heard

above the roar of the flames

and falling debris and the

screams of those jumping

to escape the burning of flesh and bone

in exchange for the mangling of

flesh and concrete....
~
a melting pot city

now literally melting around them

no where to go, all exits except

D E A T H ! !

now blocked and impassable

seconds from the final breath

eyes wide in fear

looking at each other and knowing

that this is the day

these are their companions

on a journey never undertaken

to a place they all

believed would be different

and much later!
~

all things that once mattered

now trivial...inconsequential

as with a huge whoosh...

the floors collapsed

and they fell into the vortex

as one.........................
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black mingled with white

Palestinian with Jew

Egyptians, Pakistanis...Indian

American...Chinese...Japanese

European..African...Australian

forty-five collective souls

caught up in an instant

from their shattered bodies

together they gazed down

at the wonder of it all

seeing their fragile

shells that they left behind

vanish in the smoke,

flames and dust
~
then ascending together

to face one God

of many names

who granted them entrance

as one...not separating them by

racial or ethnic categories

but gathering them in his arms

to comfort and welcome them

as victims of man's free will

S U D D E N L Y

gone awry in

a monstrous way
~
Ahhhhh, the angels

were busy that day

bringing in the earthly damned

to a heavenly rest

and the demons too

claimed souls

nineteen for sure

and others who ignored

the faith and all it offered

a melting pot where some emerged

as pure as gold and blessed

and others fed the smelting

in hells of their own making

of all of the world's most evil

where they will continue

thier agonizing dances

in the eternal flames

not caused by crashing planes

into masses of humans encased

in stone and steel......

viciously taking lives

on mad men's whims
~
isn't it truly sad that we

usually only realize

how precious we all are

to each other

and of how little importance

our differences are

when we wind up dying together

and truly need each other regardless??
~

May God bless all the people

of this planet and give them peace

and may his wrath fall

on all who would do harm

to any of his precious inhabitants

of this earthly plane.