Dear Texas Poem by Walterrean Salley

Dear Texas

Rating: 5.0


We’ve heard your cry, seen your tears
And felt your deeply gripping fears.
We sense your pain and your loss,
Which comes at such an immense cost.

But there are countless angels there
That serve amongst you unawares.
And there are heroes—not a few—
Whose hearts are filled with heaven’s dew.

Oh, let the mocking bird yet sing
While nursing now a broken wing.
And to her faith forever cling—
Tho’ fate has dealt a treacherous sting.

Oh, Texas, you can make it through.
We send these bluebonnets for you.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Inspired and penned (4.21.13) for the unfortunate tragedy (a fertilizer plant explosion) that befell West Texas on April 17,2013, resulting in the death of fifteen people, which included thirteen firefighters. And many others were wounded.

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© 2013 by Walterrean Salley
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Pradip Chattopadhyay 13 July 2013

a beautiful expression of empathy, inspiring too.

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