i can't believe its been 7 years. i remember like if it just happened yesterday. today we talked about it in school. then we had a lockdown. just as the bell rang to go to 2nd period, the lady comes on the announcements like "EVERYONE REPORT TO YOUR FIRST PERIOD DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CLASSROOMS WE ARE IN A LOCKDOWN" like with her voice mad nervious. my stomach was turning "/ then we all get in class and have to turn off the lights and cover the windows. then tell me how this niggaaaa. my damn teacher is like okay guys take out your notes. im like WTF there can be a shooter on the damn campus and you want us to take our damn notes out. next thing you know you hear helicoptors. thats when i text alan "/ after like 10 mins they send us back to class like nothing happened. theres rumors that a car blew up, that people saw people in handcuffs. who knowss. anyways then in 2nd period we were all shook up so we just had a discussion about 9/11 and the upcoming election the whole period. heres a poem i did for that class a couple of days ago.
I remember it as if it just happened yesterday
A regular day in New York, everything was always the same.
One kid got called out of class, and then I was the next
Lord knows this was the last thing I would expect.
I walked down to a lobby of frantic moms and dads
There were no TVs to let me know what was going on that was so bad.
My grandma picked me up, with her eyes full of pain
All I could do was think the worst, so I started to pray.
We took a cab to pick up my older sister, and I could tell by the atmosphere that something was wrong
When she got in the car, all she told me to do was to hold on.
“Be prepared for what you’re about to see
I bet you never knew just how cruel this world could be.”
When I got to my building everyone was going crazy and crying
My grandma tried to explain to me why there were so many people dying.
A plane hit the World Trade Center, a place where my mom was working just two weeks ago
But since she didn’t tell me she switched offices, my world suddenly went cold.
Watching the buildings collapse, it was just too devastating
Nothing to do but sit at home, I couldn’t stand the waiting.
I remember sitting there thinking “how could I be so dumb and blind?”
“Couldn’t this be prevented, weren’t there any signs?”
Finally my mom got home, and my worries died down a bit
All I wanted to do was hold her close to me and just sit.
She sat in front of the TV saying “what’s the point of us having all these rights
Is this what our country has turned into, us fighting for life?”
The rest of the day was just spent in sadness and sorrow
This was one situation that I knew wouldn’t be fixed by tomorrow.
There are no words to explain the emptiness felt due to this tragedy
All the lives lost and how it happened so sadly.
Its crazy how in one day it went from two beautiful buildings standing so tall
To a nation who now says “united we stand, divided we fall.”
A regular day in New York, everything was always the same.
One kid got called out of class, and then I was the next
Lord knows this was the last thing I would expect.
I walked down to a lobby of frantic moms and dads
There were no TVs to let me know what was going on that was so bad.
My grandma picked me up, with her eyes full of pain
All I could do was think the worst, so I started to pray.
We took a cab to pick up my older sister, and I could tell by the atmosphere that something was wrong
When she got in the car, all she told me to do was to hold on.
“Be prepared for what you’re about to see
I bet you never knew just how cruel this world could be.”
When I got to my building everyone was going crazy and crying
My grandma tried to explain to me why there were so many people dying.
A plane hit the World Trade Center, a place where my mom was working just two weeks ago
But since she didn’t tell me she switched offices, my world suddenly went cold.
Watching the buildings collapse, it was just too devastating
Nothing to do but sit at home, I couldn’t stand the waiting.
I remember sitting there thinking “how could I be so dumb and blind?”
“Couldn’t this be prevented, weren’t there any signs?”
Finally my mom got home, and my worries died down a bit
All I wanted to do was hold her close to me and just sit.
She sat in front of the TV saying “what’s the point of us having all these rights
Is this what our country has turned into, us fighting for life?”
The rest of the day was just spent in sadness and sorrow
This was one situation that I knew wouldn’t be fixed by tomorrow.
There are no words to explain the emptiness felt due to this tragedy
All the lives lost and how it happened so sadly.
Its crazy how in one day it went from two beautiful buildings standing so tall
To a nation who now says “united we stand, divided we fall.”
even today when we were talking about it i still get emotional. the dicussion turned into a debate when we got into the upcomming election. i was for obama of course. i just had alot to say. it was different for me though talking about 9/11 because i was in new york. and it played a big reason as to the reason why i moved to florida. anyways in the video john is for mccain and saying that obama wasn't brought up to be a leader like mccain is because of his family backround. after i said what i had to say (: everyone said that instead of being president of the class i need to be president of the country. haha. desiree for president ! get at meeee. (plus carswell back at school. he wasn't even in the hospital. but he did have stomach pain)
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