Fallen   Ah Sunrise ….. a treasure in Towers on high; the hustle beneath them ….. the City, the lives. Peacefully working, up where eagles fly; they never imagined, today they would die.   He’s traveling on business, She’s going back home; She misses her children, He talks on the phone. Now in the air, something’s terribly wrong; fate soon revealed, they would never see home!   A crash….. ”oh dear God, what’s happening here?”. Some run to escape, some frozen with fear; some jump for their lives ….. but life is not there; they fall to their death, we cry in despair!   Some try to remain so calm and controlled, as officers run there, from usual patrol. With no fear for their lives, the firemen rush in; it’s always a gamble ….. today they won’t win.   The panic is rising, there’s nowhere to go; what once seemed a fortress ….. is falling like snow. Desperately searching ….. one breath, just one life; they dig and they pray ….. all day and all night.   Time has passed by, they’re not coming home; we’re left with a sorrow that we’ve never known. Their wives, their husbands, their children all cry; the rest of us know that a lot more has died.   Their numbers were many, that left us that day; but something else died …. it was taken away. We took it for granted, we’d be safe and sound; now Towers of steel are like dust on the ground.   May we never forget what was taken that day … remember each life that has faded away. The anger we feel, the sorrow, the pain … will serve to remind us, they died not in vain!   Author~Patricia L Arnold ©Copyright~2002   Dedication   Dedicated to the memory of those who perished in the tragedy of September 11th, 2001; and to those who, by the grace of God, have survived.  Thank you…………. to all of the Firemen, Police Officers and many other heroes I will never know.  I owe a debt I can never pay.