I remember that day as I heard the call
Ring loudly on the radio
As I sat in wonderment
Could this really happen at all
The broadcaster claimed that we had been attacked
On our very own soil
By terrorists none the less
Who look like someone we’d pass at the mall
Now we watch
Over shoulder and back
Wondering if our neighbors
May be the next to attack
Are they religious fanatics?
Or just lunatics
Practicing freedoms
In which they believe
Or are they the terrorists
That sleep beneath our feet
Remember not so long ago
A little thing called McCarthyism
Even then we feared what we could not see
What went on behind our neighbor’s door?
Or the communistic terror
That we fought overseas and on our own shores
The same continues to go on today
T’was us who let them in
We gave them political asylum
And made them our so called friends
One thing that we forget
We all came from the same mould
Some place in time there was one God
Who created all and then
Cast us from a heavenly garden
Where man brought chaos and sin
What seems so strange, we don’t know how
To live in peace my friend
We continue to fight
For what we think is right, until the very end
For all the Holy books speak of a time
When all the towers will fall
And for those who died, all we can do
Is give them praise for what they have done
And for those who fight against us
Place trust in God that no harm comes our way
And on the 11th we must remember those who have fallen
And those who have gone before
Fighting for the freedom and religious rights
That makes us who we are.
Now All We Can Do Is Pray