Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Dedicated to all those that Survived and died in the path of Category four Hurricane Harvey August 29, 2017 Life Goes On By Juanita Garcia Vera Sometimes a lifetime Is but one brief moment It’s the brightest star In the boundless star studied sky Beautiful beyond belief Here, but a moment in time Yet, it lingers in the heart Like the splendor Of a million smiles of Sunshine The rains kept pounding on the roofs And in the minds of millions All praying for the best But, for four days, It rained without end Sometimes it was hard as Hail Pounding away peace of mind Other times Softly silent like the tearful drops of pain That swept away the labor of a lifetime Sprawled across the screens The scenes of doom, fear and powerlessness A child shivering in the rain clinging to her mother’s lifeless body Cold and crying but alive Two generations gone in an instant in view of all The family tree, its history and future lost in time Lives snapped away while parents prayed Their hearts drowning in pain and loss People overpowered by the rising streams clung to trees Life hanging on a string Highways and neighborhoods were water filled tombs An end of watch for a veteran Officer While a wife and children cried fearing the worse A baby slips from the arms of it‘s mother Who clings to a tree branch above a rushing stream I’ve seen and heard so much and been touched And quietly hurt for those affected Yet, tears can’t heal the pain left behind Now, we wait for the subsiding water To rip out the decay and clear debris But, today the Sun rose, birds sang The Butterflies and Bees labored As survivors worked cleaning up Trying to gain control of their lives Helping each other with food ,shelter and love Harvey brought so much to a divided society But if we have gained anything from this storm It is that Life is precious and all other differences, Prejudices and erroneous ideas have no room to linger Heroes are ordinary people Making extraordinary sacrifices risking life and limb To help total strangers and neighbors There are still those hardened Souls That scuff and make light of others hardships And those too have come disguised as aides Like vultures circling a corpse They wait to consume those in need Thank God all is well with you Be thankful for this day For there might not be another coming our way again © Juanita Garcia Vera Houston, Texas Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Juanita Garcia Vera Title A name given to the resource Life Goes On Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource This item is licensed under a Creative Commons <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)</a> license. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived This item was contributed via the Harvey Memories Project "Contribute an Item" form. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 2018-08-22 Type The nature or genre of the resource poems Language A language of the resource en Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 2017-08-29 Date Available Date (often a range) that the resource became or will become available. 2018-08-23