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Empty Skies September 11 was perfect blue and emptyA normal New York morning With kids exchanging texts and sporting the latest mobile Making sure they wear the right label Unaware of the gathering clouds of evil Under an empty sky England still struggles To celebrate difference Unaided by New York losing its front teeth Kid’s text Bin Larden jokes As the skies empty of that blue innocence And become filled with planes of intent Kid’s “football talk” at strictly labelled dicos Becomes punctuated by An acknowledgment that The skies are now grey And celebration of difference and understanding Is now a thing of the past The emptiness of the sky Becomes an emptiness of the soul As countries teletext themselves towards war Against that celebration of difference. And that chance for different minds to meet While our future continues to depend on a perfect blue empty sky. Ref: Bruce Springsteen album “The Rising” Friday, 07 March 2003 |