Michael's Wings

• Artist: Evan_Fleder
• Description: This is a poem I wrote for my cousin Michael Robert Horrocks who was the co-pilot of the plane that crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. It was a class assignment to write an elegy which is a poem that you would read at a funeral. I hope this is good and I'd like to think that as I wrote this he was with me the whole time.
• Date: 04/22/2009
• Tags: michaelswings

tab Michael in life your wings were bound so you could not fly away and touch the stars. Now that you are gone your wings are released and you can touch the stars. In death you realized your stars were always with you and that you never needed your wings to reach them. Your stars were us, your loved ones that you left behind. After realizing this you flew down to us and used your wings for another purpose. You use your wings to cover us and protect us from the evils of this world and when it is our time you take us by the hand and direct into the right direction. If we went the wrong direction you would follow us until we were right again. I feel you when I’m sad, your touch is comforting and puts me at ease. I feel you when when I am angry, for I talk and you listen, never speaking, but your silence sooths me. Though we miss you every day we know you are always with us. I hear you say, "I love you," everyday, it’s soft like a whisper, but loud like a scream so everyone who is meant to hear it can. Our love and memories of you keep you a live. They are our greatest treasure, one we would not trade for all the riches in the world. Many would give all they own for such a treasure, but not us. Our love for you for you over powers all other feelings we have. Michael you were always a hero to all of us. When you in listed in the marines and learned of your wings, you showed us your first steps as a hero. However, on that fateful day you showed us what a real hero is mad of. You gave your life to save many, such a sacrifice gained you your wings. Michael to me you are a hero, my cousin, and above all my guardian angel.

Comments

[Evan_Fleder]

Thank you. Tomorrow he is being inducted into his hall of fame at his college because of his death I believe as well as he was their star quarterback when he was there.

[miss-robin-batman27]

not bad. Very touching.
Its great.
5/5