The Anniversary 9/11/02
By Francine Skye Morales Lentini
9/11/02

The day that I’ve dreaded is finally here
You’ve been gone my darling for one whole year
The Anniversary of that day has finally come through
The day I’ve been agonizing, reliving, missing you

The day I found out your body was found
Among the rubble of that hallowed ground
Is the day that I stopped breathing and cried
For my heart broke in pieces when I learned you died

I haven’t been able to go on with my life
My life is different since I last was your wife
No doctors or therapists or those who have tried
Could make me feel comfort; this grief I can’t hide

And the pain in my heart is as real today
As the pain that I felt on that cold October day
When police came, they knocked on the door
With the news of you; you are here no more

I couldn’t breathe then as I can’t breathe now
The pain deep inside me I can only avow
How can I go back to my life as it was
Without the happiness and joy of your all consuming love

This morning when I looked at a rose by my sink
A thought came of you and I started to think
I stared at the petals and said with some doubt
He loves me (yes)…H e loves me not

Then as I watched a single petal dropped

I somehow sensed what you wanted to say
You love me still even though you’re away
As I stared at that rose I started to cry
I will love you too until the day that I die

Happy Anniversary in heaven, my love
I dream of seeing you one day in heaven above
And until that day when we can start anew
I will go on forever still loving you