The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #38981   Message #551991
Posted By: wysiwyg
16-Sep-01 - 10:19 PM
Thread Name: 9/11: Responding through Music
Subject: ADD
Linda, we have not met yet but you are ALWAYS welcome at Mudcat. I've done your line breaks for you-- hope they are correct--

~Susan

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„¶2001 Linda Allen

Here in my garden there's work to be done
Tomatoes need pruning, there's too little sun
The roses are lovely, all yellow and red
Five thousand people are dying or dead

The mums need re-planting, the dahlias are through
I've seldom seen hyacinths such a fine blue
I reach for a plum and I stare at the sky
Five thousand innocent people have died

Sunflowers bowing their heads to the ground
Hollyhocks falling with hardly a sound
I'll stay in my garden until it gets dark
Five thousand people are dead in New York

The apple tree's loaded with fruit ripe and red
It was planted in love on the day we were wed
What seeds have been planted to reap such a harvest
Five thousand people - my God! - are all dead