Meditation 9/11 #162 Three thousand souls gone up in smoke today. The horrors broadcast, searing every heart With smallest spark of kindness to impart Disgust against the evil on display. We ask ourselves, can hatred thus exist? We search our hearts to see if there within Can lie such blackness capable of sin? We're not the same, yet evil's in our midst. A nation came together, hearts were one, And on that day our differences were cast Aside for once, as brothers we became. A score plus one has passed, can we reclaim That human trait of goodness unsurpassed? Forget we not that spoken by John Donne. Frank Garnick © Copyright The Archer's March 11 September 2022