Ten Years Later 9/11

I original wrote this on the tenth year anniversary of 9/11 but just posting it now.

The blinded masses swallowed government lies

Grabbing weapons going to die

Heading off to kill Gods other children

At the command of Old Satan

No questions asked

Patriotic sickness spread like the flu

Waving flags bashing Muslims and f**s

Ten years later the blood flows on

Nothing went right

Everything’s gone wrong

In another ten years maybe we’ll end this dance, end this song

Author's Note

Let me know what you think

Reviews

[Extant]

I recently watched "Thirty Days" a show about an iconic Christian, American man was Muslim for thirty days. The show addressed all kinds of issues between America and Muslims, including Islam-phobia. I found it sad for many reasons, but the one that stood out the most was how the Muslims stated there was one God and that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam worshiped him all but in different ways. Still, he could not accept that, he couldn't believe that it was the same God, there was only the Christian God.
That show, this poem, it all tells a very true tale. That things are not better, that hate is easier to spread, that lies are easier to spread than forgiveness and truth.

[Abdul Batin Osman Bey]

It's unfortunate that so many people over look the similarities of out look and values that the Abrahamic faiths share and dwell on aspects of difference and misunderstanding. The Qur'an tells us that the God of Muslims,Christians and Jews is One and the same God, even then some have a problem with getting together. I ounce read that it takes two positive thoughts to get rid of one negative thought and that our bodies are naturally negative charge so we must strive for the positive charge and make an effort everyday. That's what I try to do, I try to understand other points of view and I just hope that more and more people are doing the same. Nothing is out of reach, I hope the world is at least one step in the positive direction when I leave this earth. Peace isn't so much a dream as a state of being.

[Extant]

Yes, it is unfortunate. If two positives negate a negative then we all need to do our part, and I try to do it everyday. I may not be the most 'positive' person out there, but I try not to infect other people. Peace is a state of being, but it is hard to be in that state while so many people around you are screaming otherwise.

[Abdul Batin Osman Bey]

agreed, it's tuning out the negative that's important.

[MOON]

An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, memory is short and the oprressed becomes the oppresser in a second or those wronged wrong others in a heartbeat. The aftermath is betrayel of values and trust. Through the ages how little we learn doomed to repeat our mistakes. good write.

[Abdul Batin Osman Bey]

I think it's unfortunate that people don't learn from past mistakes

[SoulCrusader (Yas)]

such a shame how a few mad individuals can ruin the outlook on a whole masses of people, it brings out how people really are underneath all the fakeness, if someone really is a good person or inherently discrimantory

[Abdul Batin Osman Bey]

I agree and it seems that more mad men are popping up leading the charge down the Black Rabbit hole into who knows what.

[Heather]

I am sure you remember that feeling of how we were all united after that happened...then it faded and look where we are now, still pointing fingers, still racial slurs, still close minded souls...I would love for that to change in 10 more years, however I am more inclined to think that its always been this way, and always will be. Your poem, a fantastic reminder of how far we have not come...great write.

[Abdul Batin Osman Bey]

Thank you so much I appreciate your point of view

[kublakhan27]

This is a sentiment that seems to be prevalent in the decade that's passed since then...there was a lot of talk in the immediate aftermath about how things would change for the better and we would come closer together, but that hasn't come close to happening...you really capture that despondency intensely and poetically.

[Abdul Batin Osman Bey]

thank you I appreciate that