PoemDay010101

Where were you when the lights stayed on?
Where were you when civilization stood?
Where were you when the institutions we all so ferverently believed in
remained standing
never stronger
never recognizing the danger in the air
never noticing the crisis at all?
Where were you when the lights stayed on?

Where were you when it kept going?
Where were you when the elevators worked?
Where were you when we lived as we never had before?
Where were you then?
Where were you when our faith
remained contained
kept us humane
maintained everything?
Where were you when the lights stayed on?

Where are you now?