From Sea To Shining Sea

I saw this picture on the Michigan Convoy page and it moved me to write something….Neighbors helping neighbors....makes me proud to be from Michigan!!!PT

From Sea To Shining Sea

What started pretty tragic
As fires raged on our land
Tears rained down in rivers
Our loss like grains of sand

Lives gone with their cattle
And neighbors we all loved
As dreams lost to the prairie
Gave prayers to God above

But out among the ashes
As this nation rose within
Then rallied with our fallen
And sent out hope again

Farm diesels loaded heavy
As hay and fence and feed
Out across our highways
To ranchers there in need

Here always we are family
We stand with all who fall
And rally to our neighbors
To help them big and small

And someday when it passes
This life goes back to plain
Land will heal and prosper
These tears shall dry again

But always we’ll remember
The many that were lost
Keep here in prayers forever
As time tallies up the cost

And here amid the tragic
Upon life’s rocky slope
Remember we are family
Together we have hope

For America still matters
From sea to shining sea
Neighbors helping neighbors
Our land still brave still free

PT Muldoon 2017

Reviews

[Richard McLin]

Damn man, and I thought I wrote epic poetry. This is a great piece. It paints a picture in my mind of people with hard lives struggling, but also living. It's hard to describe how this poem makes me feel, but it does make me want to see Michigan. Great work.