NOT JUST
poems and essays on September 11, 2001
Victim
Deborah Whipp
[dwhipp@earthlink.net]
Victim,
so impersonal a word
implying suffering
now it echoes through our days
Mothers, daughters,
fathers, sons,
aunts, uncles,
grandparents, cousins,
Nieces, nephews,
sisters, brothers,
colleagues, neighbors,
friends, lovers
Perhaps victim
is easier for us to say
originally posted as part of the Not Just virtual chapbook, on September 11, 2002
Poem © 2001 Deborah Whipp, all rights reserved
appears here by permission
