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There's Terror
in the Heartland |
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 It's come to the heartland
The terror and the dread
In one explosive moment
Our innocence has fled
Oh yes, it has come home!
There is no understanding
There's only disbelief
Was it our own countrymen
Who brought down all this grief?
Oh yes, it has come home!
Our voices cry for justice
Our hearts cry out in pain
For family, friends, and loved ones
Never to be, seen or held again
Oh yes, it has come home!
Then, there are the children
Without their lives to live
Now the world will surely miss
The gifts they had to give
Oh yes, it has come home!
The images of heroes
Burned deep into our mind
People helping people
Shows we are a special kind
Oh yes, it has come home!
In the twisted steel and concrete
Through the day and dark of night
We watch the tireless effort
Of the rescuers fight.
Oh yes, it can come home!
How can a human being
Harbor such demented hate
To bring upon their own kind
Such a cruel fate
Oh yes, it has come home
Though most of us view from afar
It could have been mine or yours
But we must grieve and then go on
Not hide behind locked doors
Even though, it has come home!
There are no easy answers
When our hearts are torn
But from healing words of promise
Each new hope is born.
Oh yes, it can come home!
Oh yes, it will come home!
It has come home! |
By
Del "Abe" Jones
Copyright 1995
Listed June 9, 2009 |
In
remembrance of the victims
of the Oklahoma City Bombing |
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