Herb Trewhitt Poems

I remember back when I was a lad,
Just forty acres is all that we had;
And with just two horses we tilled the land,
Part of it hills...and the other part sand.
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I thought that time had healed all the pain
And I was surely free to love again
But now I find old memories remain
And I guess it's just too soon too soon to love again.
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As I stood in the shadows watching children play
One small boy with tear dimmed eyes slowly walked away
He kneeled beneath an old oak tree like he was going to pray
I had to stay and listen as I heard the small boy say
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