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COAL DUST MEN

I remember the mines all around our town The streets in a green circle where we ran around That ring of sun that brought us near The black hills holding our sunsets clear The people’s smiles, their stories at night Their laughs around coffee, black and warm light In the North, the rows of homes were our place Red brick houses, same old face All lined up with gardens in line They called it sad land, but it felt like mine Today I miss it, almost all is gone Only cold winters and memories go on My grandparents’ house with open doors The flowers they loved, the soil they adored The food they grew just to feed us right The geese and the rabbits when hunger was tight A story in me that will never fade It tells me who I am, the roots I made A child of the rain in a grey sky land Where clouds come slow and time slips through your hands In the North, the rows of homes were our place Red brick houses, same old face All lined up with gardens in line They called it sad land, but it felt like mine Today I miss it, almost all is gone Only cold winters and memories go on Before every winter, coal in our hands “A gift,” they said, to warm our land The miners like my father left before dawn Four in the morning, the lights were gone To break the black gold, the blackened men On their knees in the dark, eating when they can Times of danger, of friends who fell Families in tears for those we held The gas took the ones we loved the most Then dust in their lungs, a silent ghost To the blackened faces, I ask your pardon I didn’t know the depth of your burden In the North, your homes still stand in our hearts Your footsteps echo where our lives start Your darkened hands built our tomorrows Your courage lives in our borrowed days We will not forget you, this I swear May your souls now rest in peace somewhere A museum now tells of your pain Your lives of labor, your human chains People from elsewhere, side by side For crumbs of bread, but hearts open wide To your courage today I sing Because of you… we are living