Posted by: Michael Rickicki | 09/11/2019

Memento Mori: September 11th

Spirits were high with expectations this morning,
As the men discussed subduing enemies and protecting the land.
Now, with night’s coming, birds and dogs chew their corpses.
Who believed that they themselves would die today?

—The Seventh Dalai Lama


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