Sense Sonnet - Acher

Build From Destroyed

A mosque, to build or not to build
Near Ground Zero brings hot debate.
Pages of history are filled
With acts of evil and of hate
In the names of all religion.
If religion cannot build good
Because of nearness to bad done,
Then all that will be understood
Is that a certain time and place
Like 911, Ground Zero
Is a narrow judgemental space
Where only certain things can grow.

A mosque at Ground Zero would be
A reminder of liberty.