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RSEvans
Senior Member

since 1999-10-23

Posts 1147
Tulsa, OK, USA

0 posted 2001-09-16 09:47 AM

My son and I watched the news
  We saw great towers fall
We watched as madmen, all enthused
  Gave out a wrenching call.
For America to tumble was their cry,
  Their lofty anti-slogan.
We watched as Americans slowly died
  We watched their terror worsen.
My boy is four, barely out of womb
  He has no understanding
Of those who could innocents entomb
  Or go on war demanding.
He simply watches with big blue eyes
  Full of staining tears
As Americans needlessly lose their lives
  And voice resounding fears.
Let's take the war to them now
  And make the sacrifices
Make our world safe somehow
  And remove the terror devices.
So that my son, my precious boy
  Won't have to grow up in
A world so easy to destroy
  And be safe from this evil sin.

Knight of the Rose.

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

1 posted 2001-09-16 11:55 AM

yes...how do we explain this to our children...
young or old...they have lost a piece of their innocence...
my daughter and I watched and cried together as it all unfolded...I wont ever forget the look on her face that morn.
well done poet sir...god bless you and yours.
jm

Well I looked to the sky for my anthem
The words and the music came through
But words and music can never touch
The beauty that I've seen in you

rwood
Member Elite

since 2000-02-29

Posts 3793
Tennessee

2 posted 2001-09-16 04:40 PM

We will have a place for their laughter to reign above all evil. I can only trust this will be. For what would the world be without it. Hugs and Love to you and yours. God Bless.

Sincerely,
Regina

Gemini
Senior Member

since 1999-12-15

Posts 1203
Wisconsin, USA

3 posted 2001-09-16 05:57 PM

RSEvans-I appreciate what you have written here as I have concerns for my own children, I can only hope and pray that their lives will be safer and that their world will not succumb to such hatred.

songstress51
Junior Member

since 2001-09-15

Posts 17
Anytown, USA

4 posted 2001-09-16 06:01 PM

this is an excellent piece, you captured the childlike horror well in your sons "big blue eyes"...I too have children and always hoped that this would never be an option (terrorism here in the US) but now its a reality and we have to learn how to deal with it head on. Good luck in helping the effort to keep our children safe.

run around the world
lookin for what
keep on lookin for
what you aint got

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

5 posted 2001-09-17 02:48 AM

RSEvans~

'Let's take the war to them now
And make the sacrifices
Make our world safe somehow
And remove the terror devices.'

Amen ... and God bless America !
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

NightShadow
Member

since 2001-09-04

Posts 127
New Jersey

6 posted 2001-09-17 09:08 AM

Oh my goodness.. this poem made me cry.. It makes me think of my nephew.. who watched it on the tv with my sister... and is now saying things, because he doesn't understand... and it reminds me of my neice.. who doesn't even want to watch the news.. its just to scary for her... My heart goes out to all the children, as to how do we really explain what happened...

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