One man
That’s how all of this madness started
It started thanks to one man
And now husbands, sons, and fathers alike
Fight; and die upon these sands
Thanks to one man, millions are dead
Thanks to one man, the World Trade Center is destroyed,
never to be rebuilt
Thanks to one man, some may never have a true home again
Some may have permanent scars; reminders of that horrible day
Some, like us, may never return home at all
The battle rages around me
Sand flying up everywhere
We are fighting in the street
Of an ordinary neighborhood
I can see the residents fleeing over the hills
Away from all this madness-
A bullet hits me in the chest
I am thrown to the ground,
my head connecting painfully with the sands
Blood drips down my chest,
more on my face,
as I gasp heavily
I still can’t believe that this all happened
because of
one man
A man who is already dead!
A man who has been destroyed;
yet the battle still rages
In front of me
and in the minds of others
I look around,
At my military family
At the brothers, fathers, and sons
Who will never be the same
I am fighting for breath now,
The pain in my chest getting worse
I squeeze my eyes shut,
thinking of the
one man
who is responsible for this
I can almost picture his face in my mind
The reason that my family has lost a brother, a father, and a son
The cause of all this death
The man who started this bloody war
The man who caused 9/11
Osama Bin Laden
