Twenty years ago the two towers fell
The terrorist attack of nine eleven.
Forced to reconcile a new kind of hell
Sending all those poor souls off to “heaven.”
The world witnessed these events horrified
I saw the change coming. For that I cried.

The terrorist attack of nine eleven
Set us against many other nations
As if that would find the problem leavened
Rather than drown us in complications.
Almost three thousand died in the attack;
We’ve spent two decades now getting them back.

Sending all those poor souls off to “heaven”
Continues to be our bread and butter
With blackwater in two thousand seven
Countless others that would cause a shutter
And all the young people we sacrificed
Those lives that congress has precisely priced.

The world witnessed these events, horrified
As we tore nations and families apart
Our grief and rage could never be subdued
Few ever examined the exposed heart
Killing people often creates profit
An angry public will welcome the deposit

I saw the change coming. For that, I cried.
It was hard to watch those people burning,
Worse knowing that day that more than they had died.
The attack was a desperate yearning
To be given respect on the world stage
But instead we bred terror for the coming age.