Is It Over?

Here it is, the 10th Anniversary of 9/11.  Lots of remembering, and lots of tears.  Memorials, and new memorials to those that fell and those, whose wounds will never heal.  It is sad, and America lost part of itself in the dust and the ashes. 

Somehow, surreal, the images we hate to see, but have to.  We would like to forget, but that is impossible.  We like to think that somehow we are better, or we learned something, profound, but that is no solace, at all. 

Two Wars, and Osama Bin Laden, laying forever at the bottom of the Sea.  We got revenge, and people ran through the streets in jubilation, but that was not: who we were, before. 

So, who are we, now?  Angry, oh yes, still very angry.  Poorer, oh my, yes.  Braver, can we even answer that.  Two arrows in the heart, one arrow in the foundation of our soul.  Trillions, and trillions, have bought us, what?  Time?

So is it, over?