While I Slept

While I slept a city was attacked. Commuters going to work. Tourists starting their daily adventure.
While I slept phone calls were made to cell phones, frantically hoping the call would be answered.

A witness was in London at a meeting, right down the street from one of the underground stations. In an interview this morning, he told of how the British were so incredibly together through it all. So brave. So prepared.

"Prepared?" the interviewer asks. He mentions the abundance of the many terror threats that they have received, as well as the IRA attacks 10 years ago. They were prepared. And I wondered how anyone could be prepared for something like this, and of course I wondered if I was prepared. If Boston were attacked would I know what to do? To save my life, I'm sure I would. But now I wonder.

Red often uses lyrics of songs in her blog to portray her feelings in a given situation. Today she uses Living on the Edge by Aerosmith. It reminded me of this song, which I played often after our 9/11. I hope she doesn't mind that I'm using her idea:

Land of Confusion - Genesis

I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street.

Now did you read the news today
They say the danger’s gone away
But I can see the fire’s still alight
There burning into the night.

There’s too many men
Too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can’t you see
This is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

Ooh superman where are you now
When everything’s gone wrong somehow
The men of steel, the men of power
Are losing control by the hour.

This is the time
This is the place
So we look for the future
But there’s not much love to go round
Tell me why, this is a land of confusion.

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

I remember long ago -Ooh
when the sun was shining
Yes and the stars were bright
All through the night

And the sound of your laughter
As I held you tight
So long ago -I won’t be coming home tonight
My generation will put it right

We’re not just making promises
That we know, we’ll never keep.

Too many men
There’s too many people
Making too many problems
And not much love to go round
Can’t you see
This is a land of confusion.

Now this is the world we live in
And these are the hands we’re given
Use them and let’s start trying
To make it a place worth fighting for.

This is the world we live in
And these are the names we’re given
Stand up and let’s start showing
Just where our lives are going to