Survivors, A 9/11 Poem Poem by Michael Burch

Survivors
by Michael R. Burch

(for the victims and survivors of 9/11 and their families)

In truth, we do not feel the horror
of the survivors,
but what passes for horror:

a shiver of "empathy."

We too are "survivors, "
if to survive is to snap back
from the sight of death

like a turtle retracting its neck.

Published by The HyperTexts, Gostinaya (Russia) , Ulita (Russia) , Promosaik(Germany) , The Night Genre Project and Muddy Chevy; also turned into a YouTube video by Lillian Y. Wong. Keywords: survivor, survivors, victim, victims, family, families,911,9/11, terrorist, attack, terror, terrorism, empathy, sympathy, truth, horror, death, survive, survival