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How do you tell a Child
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Remembering 9/11 How do you tell a child their dad won't be home,
that someone blew up his building and now he is gone?
How do you prevent the child from growing up with hate
for the ones that snuffed out their father's life in that heinous way?
How do you tell a child, their mother is no more
Because terrorists were carrying out their holy war?
How do you make them understand
That these people from this foreign land
Believe that killing defenseless women and men
Buys them a ticket direct to heaven?
The only thing the child will see
Is the hole in their lives where their parent used to be.
Can you blame them for harboring an intense hate
That retribution may reduce, but never sate.
This hate can consume their lives
Until they exact on their enemies a reprise.
And a vicious cycle growing ever wild
How do you tell a child?
