“Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself” He knew when He spoke these words Of a morning beyond our worst dreams That would shock past all comprehension. Humanity devastated Arrogance, abomination, Evil behind un-masked faces? Hope, the fuel that fed survivors Ordinary people, heroes In the wreckage, with one thought only To save people they never knew No matter nationality Color, creed was not important. He knew, when he spoke these words The test of anger’s raw demand For retribution, for justice When no real justice can be gained While people of all nations cry Against such mad depravity? What phoenix will rise from ashes Where innocence was lost in flame? Beware its soul-felt cries all those Who knew not the stuff that binds us To better thought and higher cause This space in blue where once stood dreams. A world now called to witness, waits To see the test of love or hate For one will speak, the other fail. Will humans, wretchedly tested Remember what he said to us Before he turned the other cheek? Still there, those Window On The World His eyes, His heart, His long time grief Aware of all in hearts of men The inherent self-destruction That comes with bitter fruits of hate. Is death the one who makes us hear? Who will take the first bite now That fallen fruit is in the hand And power to turn the earth to soot Resides at pain’s once open door? Who now knows best, who knows more Than One who spoke this simple phrase? “Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself” COMMENTS ? Hell'n