A Hero Named Brenda Lee

Back in March of 2017, I wrote a two part storytelling poem, the first part being On Desert Sand, the Second part being on a Dime, only to come to the realization that the story was not fully told.

A Hero Named Brenda Lee

She came back

Every so often

To check on

That boy

Whose life

She first saved

On hot Desert sand

And then she had saved

Him again

When she saw a

Broken young man

Sitting on broken cement.

The war that had

Taken her legs

Had given her so

Much more

A determination

And a faith

That couldn’t be shaken

Even in the toughest

Of storms.

She had her moments

Moments of pain

With the memory of

Watching your life

Change in an instant

All because of an act