Why Was I Spared?
By Vaughn Rogers
Freshman at Ridgewood High School

In the horrible tragedy that gripped a whole nation of people.
Why Was I Spared?

Amidst the terror of the chaos people burning, people diving from the
buildings. So many people; so many lost.
Why Was I Spared?

With the United States in a sea of sadness, and anger with so many lives lost
and so many parents unable to come home.
Why Was I Spared?

Why Me? Why Me? I ask myself over and over again. I can never ever stop
grieving for those lost.
Why Was I Spared?

I feel as if I too have lost a family member. My heart goes out to so many
people. My heart is full of friends and family I care for.
Why Was I Spared?

But now there is a Dark place there; a black place were sadness, hatred, and
anger goes and will never as long as I live will never diminish. It will
always be there. And never leave.
WHY WAS I SPARED?

©2001