Heliotrope

 

Angel given to me on September 11, 2013 by Maureen- Owner of Angelic Teapot, White Rock, BC

 Some Gave All – Billy Ray Cyrus

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*WARNING* Some alarming images in Video

Stained Glass 

I sat at the beach today

Bags of pebbles in hand...

I came to pay tribute to every child, woman and man

Those who's Souls were imprinted with two numbers: 9/11

I wondered what their lives were like, before they entered Heaven

I thought of the sons, whose legacies- would be all that would survive
and how one single day, dust came to represent their lives

I imagined the mothers with shattered families, left to weep

The little girls, now without fathers, to protect them while they sleep

I felt a tug at my heart for those grandmothers-their tears spread out for miles
My thoughts reflected on the daughters... whose fathers once walked them down the aisles

The grandpa's- who's fishing poles, have begun to rust

I bowed my head, for the fallen heroes of uniforms, in which we entrust 

Now I sat with my toes in the sand, carefully paying tribute to every child, woman and man

The glints in the pebbles were vivid in colour; reminding me of stained glass

Where thousands of Souls were imprinted, to always remind us of our tragic past...

As the tides grew closer to claim back the land, I folded my hand in prayer for every child, woman and man.

By T. L. Alton 

Susan McDonnell’s painting- Mourning