The Towers Poem by Frank Halliwell

When disbelief has run its course
At evil done without regard
For innocents who died in vain
When safeguards left the skies unbarred.

With hindsight comes great clarity!
They should have known that they exist.
Regretfully they did not find
The nest of vipers in their midst.

The world has witnessed infamy
A deed that caught them unawares
-The terror in the window space,
The final horror on the stairs.

How can we start to understand
The hate that fills their twisted minds
-That lets them kill without remorse
An enemy their hate defines.

The awful waste of human life
And all the tears of kin and friends
Not knowing if or when to grieve
Or when the awful doubt might end.

But this will all be overcome
All in due course, there's little doubt
And justice may in time restore
A people who are all cried-out.