What were you expecting
After The 9-11 Attack?

A soldier,
A nurse,

A princess,
Batman,

Tigger,
Dracula,

Spiderman,
Mia Hamn,

A fireman, or
A policeman?

What a place to be.
Age five and under at the

Afternoon Halloween party
At the Community Center 10-27-01.

Then was not the time
To tell them.

They'll soon be thirteen.
It's time they know;

We are no safer now
Than then.

Tom J. Mariani

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/05-09-revised-expectations/