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While watching the terrible disaster unfold on Tuesday, through my tears, I had to write my feelings.

I didn’t see the explosion,
I couldn’t hear the loud boom,
I was clear across the country,
In a place I thought I would always be safe,
Here in my own home,
Sitting in my living room.

How could this have happened?
Brought our world to a halt,
As people run for cover
Refuge for their lives being sought.
They have closed down our whole country,
Who could have been so mean?
And on every television station,
Devastation is all that is seen.
Words can not express enough
The great sorrow that we feel
For those who lost their lives
In those hijacked airplanes
And those buildings made of steel.

How do I explain this?
Should I let them know my fears?
What do we tell our children?
As we all sit and watch in tears.
I guess we can only tell them
We will try to keep them safe
And try to teach them how to love,
And to say a prayer to God
For those who lost their lives
And are now with him above.

What were they thinking?
As they hijacked those planes high in the air?
As long as they got their point across,
I guess they just really didn’t care.
Did they care about the grief?
Or the lives that would be lost?
Was their satisfaction with what they’d done,
Worth the human lives it cost.