September 11, 2005
9-11 Revisited
![World Trade Center blast](pix/wtcblast.jpg)
What kind of man could write about that day?
How find the right words; what would they say?
Shock, Horror, Fear, Anger, Grief and Mourning.
We passed through all stages in a single morning.
The TV pictures of the twin towers falling.
Counting the victims; the losses appalling.
The awful blackness that shrouded Manhattan,
![WTC Attack](pix/wtcattack.jpg)
![WTC Attack - that night](pix/wtc-attack5.jpg)
Searing each brain with its terrible vision.
But William remembered an earlier horror,
An image from childhood filled with terror.
Peered at the cloud that hung like a drape,
Was relieved that it formed no mushroom shape.
![A-Bomb Cloud](pix/a-bomb-clouds.jpg)
William's Whimsical Words:
Duck and cover.
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