Thank You for Being Our Heroes and Friends

September 17, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is terrorism in memory of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Today’s poem is a thank-you poem from a child to the soldiers and first responders who protect us from terrorism.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Thank you for being our heroes and friends,

Having the courage to make us secure.

A child needs someone attentive and strong

Nearby to be certain that nothing is wrong.

Kids can get frightened and like to be sure.

You are the saviors, unselfish and pure,

On whom our bright vision of fortune depends,

Unstained as the innocent hope of our song.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/than21.html. For more poems about terrorism and 911, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/terrorism911poems.html .

This week’s theme: Terrorism

September 11: So Did You Die of History

September 12: Soldiers Kill, for That Is Their Profession

September 13: There Is No Armor We Can Wear

September 14: To Our Loved One Far Away

September 15: Morphed to Somalia

September 16: Torture Is the Rash of the Disease

September 17: Thank You for Being Our Heroes and Friends