Christina

1st Section of the Sago Mine Memorial unveiled on May 21, 2009A SAD SAGO SONG

It’s really not so bad, my dears,
I’m just very sleepy –
I will see you on the other side…
Love you

So the miner wrote
near the end of his life
in a cold dark mine,
to his children and wife…

He Sighed
He simply slept and died

They cried
…

All the men and women
miners, lost in the cold and the damp
lost in the mines
with only the small comfort of a tiny
miner’s lamp

Blessings to those who go down
Blessings to those who wait up above
To all of you, now,
I send my sorrow and love.

Author’s Note: For the Miners who died in the Sago, West Virginia, mine disaster