Patricia Neely-Dorsey Poet Rhyme

If Mississippi's In You

IF MISSISSIPPI"S IN YOU 
 If Mississippi's in you 
 It'll always be that way;
 It matters not how far you 
 Or how long you stay.
 If Mississippi's in you,
 It always plays a part;
 In how you live and move and breathe,
 And in every notion of the heart.
 If Mississippi's in you,
 It's in you through and through;
 It's in in who you are and how you be,
 And it's in everything you do.
 If Mississippi's in you,
 There is some special glow;
 A different something down inside,
 That all the home folks know.
 If Mississippi's in you,
 It'll always be that way,
 From the time you enter in the world,
 Till in the grave you lay.
 Every true Mississippian,
 Can surely have it said;
 I'm Mississippi born,
 I'm Mississippi bred,
 And when I die,
 I'll be Mississippi dead.
 2008 Patricia Neely-Dorsey
 from Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia -A Life In Poems 
#Mississippi #mississippipoems

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