Your Culture

Chris Valles

Your culture is beautiful, it’s fun and unique You cling to it dearly when you’re battered and weak Your people, they suffered and traveled for miles Their prayers were answered and their ancestors now smile Proud, you are, to come from these people From broad river backs and mountain church steeples

You work everyday to spread their fair story Stories of freedom and honor and tales of old glory You thank them each day for their suffering and pain The blood that they shed added valor to your gain You see them each day in the homes and the faces Of painted glass plates and towering vases

You’re a little scared for the future and your duty to them You are a product of humans, made from roots and their stems A duty, you have, to spread their old legend Of battles for glory and their homes that were threatened Thank them each day for their trials and power Honor their graves with great stones and bright flowers