i haven't cried in a long time
until i saw life undermined
by soaring jets of hijacked lives
innocence trapped by bloody knives
these daggers to democracy
delivered death immediately
to future friends i cannot meet
to families drowning in defeat
numb to the contents of these days
drunk on nauseating dismay
i sit here wonder wander why
among the smokey manhattan sky
america's borders battered / reviled
her way of life now revised
a million doubts and tears she doth possess
but here me now she cannot rest
watch out for the shadows of the new terror
as it lurks to spit out more bloody horrors
marking each human life inherently unsafe
vigilance i know must not wait