Melissa, I Can Still Hear You

Dearest Melissa, I want you to know I can still hear you.

The pain in your voice from when the flames came near you.

Every time I play that tape back it makes me wanna cry.

Knowing those were your last moments and you were gonna die.

Wings of death trapped you and put your life in danger.

Left with nothing but words of consolation from a stranger.

It wasn’t false hope. She really wanted you to live.

Words of encouragement was all there was left for her to give.

Acceptance of the end with your peers as you prayed

You didn’t have to go, but you also couldn’t stay.

The whole world listened to the message of your final words.

They made it back to your mother and every word was heard.

Two decades later those words are a forever cutting knife.

Among the other thousands of innocence who lost a life.

And now you’ve been reunited with your mother.

She loved you and you loved her as you said like no other.

To hear the desperation before you became heaven’s bird.

The most heartbreaking plea for help I’ve ever heard.

I will never forget and I promise I will remember.

The final words Melissa spoke on that morning of September.

~~"Tell her...that she was the best mother a person could have, and that I love her with all my heart and soul, and that I'll see her in the next world” - Melissa Doi.