by N. Lee Austin

Created on: June 05, 2010

For Those Who Kept Her Free

If you took the red stripes,

Off all the flags,

Flying over America,

Would there be enough stripes,

To absorb the blood,

Of those who kept her free ?

If you took the white stripes,

Off all the flags,

Flying over America,

Would there be enough cloth,

To wipe the brow,

Of those who kept her free?

If you took the blue field,

Off all the flags,

Flying over America,

Would it be large enough,

To hold the tears,

Of those who kept her free?

And...

If you took all the stars,

Off all the flags,

Flying over America,

Would there be a star,

One for each soul,

Of those who kept her free?

Could it be,

There should be,

More flags flying over America,

For those who kept her free?

...since the writing of this work, it has been dedicated to Terry Sasek,

a wounded Viet Nam vet that I have met through poetry. A hero of

ours.

Learn more about this author, N. Lee Austin.
Click here to send this author comments or questions.