We Will Remember
The chill of that November night,
The few seconds that left our world
Never again the same.
We clung to familiar platitudes--
Time heals, life goes on—
Because we had to hope
That the hurt could stop.
Time buried the hurt,
Wrapping our pain,
Blanketing it with new memories
And we have laughed again.
In fact the joys of life
Have been perhaps greater
More appreciated,
Less taken for granted.
But the tears keep returning
Without warning and without end.
The sound of a siren, the sight of a news van.
Amazing grace—even the word Angel—
The tears respond—falling—forever.
Twelve families will be eternally incomplete,
And even the most distant Aggie,
Alone-a world away from Aggieland, now has
An incomplete heart—12 missing pieces.
And each year, as the chill returns to the nights,
The blanket slips from our pain,
The holes in our heart ache to be filled,
The tears fall without end,
Tomorrow we will laugh and live again,
But now it is November,
And we WILL……..
Remember
The chill of that November night,
The few seconds that left our world
Never again the same.
We clung to familiar platitudes--
Time heals, life goes on—
Because we had to hope
That the hurt could stop.
Time buried the hurt,
Wrapping our pain,
Blanketing it with new memories
And we have laughed again.
In fact the joys of life
Have been perhaps greater
More appreciated,
Less taken for granted.
But the tears keep returning
Without warning and without end.
The sound of a siren, the sight of a news van.
Amazing grace—even the word Angel—
The tears respond—falling—forever.
Twelve families will be eternally incomplete,
And even the most distant Aggie,
Alone-a world away from Aggieland, now has
An incomplete heart—12 missing pieces.
And each year, as the chill returns to the nights,
The blanket slips from our pain,
The holes in our heart ache to be filled,
The tears fall without end,
Tomorrow we will laugh and live again,
But now it is November,
And we WILL……..
Remember