My response to the poem, "We breathed you" by Patti Tana. The purpose to this poem is to express a emotion scene of 9/11 to show what people might of been feeling and thinking. The tone of the author is very sad, and hopeless. The author also shows despair and fear. The text shows that it was referencing to 9/11 when it says, "the day you burned you fell you flew through the New York air".