To the Trailblazers...That Were and Are

Here is where we live

Where brave hearts fought to free the land

Where we lie and count stars and night

Or dare to dream dreams big and grand

Here is where we live

Their hardship, happiness and need

Cultivated Inheritance

They cleared the fields where we plant seed

Here is where we live

Homes dot the counterpane of years

In towns and countryside, commerce

Conceived by their blood-sweat-prayers-tears

Here is where we live

And place our foot and fingerprints

To circumstance with our response

That soon becomes Inheritance

© Janet Martin