Air Raid

Have you ever heard the whizzing of bombs
Dropping to the ground around you?
Did you ever worry that it would be the last sound you heard?
Or that you would walk home afterward
And it would be gone?

The sky above us has never held fear.
We have prepared for the horror.
We have brought it to others
With no retaliation.
America has never heard the screams
“Mother? Father? NO!!!”
Our children did not die,
They did not lose their parents and homes
To some unseen enemy in a metal bird.

We have sent others this fear
This horrible message of power.
Others have heard the sounds of suffering.
The sounds of fear. The silence before a raid.

Have you ever sat in the dark
Waiting for the building above to collapse?
Praying to God to save you from this Hell?
Or losing faith in Him?

No, you are an American.
You know nothing of Hell.