The Day of Mourning
Lauren Del Giorno
Age 13
September 11th
An unthinkable day
A day a grieving
A day of pain
There is one man
To decide the destiny
Of the people who destroyed
New York’s holy gates
The man’s name is leader
And a guide and president
Not acting hastily, under pressure
But trusting himself to do what’s right
“We’re gonna smoke ‘em”
Those famous words
At his conference
To calm the public down
“We’re gonna smoke ‘em”
Said he in his speech
Anthrax to crop dusters
Everything will be all right
“We’re gonna smoke ‘em out of their cave”
To find a man
Named Bin Laden
To end this war and all be saved
Bombs exploding
Boom
Boom
Boom
For the sinister Taliban
Await their judgment day
A great nation
Waits in horror
Thinking, waiting, contemplating
To see what happens tomorrow.