911
Twin black towers
Bathed in smoke
And screams
The flames glow
Brightly inside
Oh terrible death
Stunned we watch
Innocence raped
A nation dies
Twin black fuses
Descend smoking shrieking
Rumbling into ashes
Slamming down
Into earth's arms
We felt death quake
Then silence
Horror
We know war
911 by David Pickens
September 2001
