Kentucky

Jesse Stuart wrote about Kentucky and what Kentucky meant to him and where to thought Kentucky fit in these United States.  He wrote simply and with heart so I'll attempt the same...

I come from south of the river called Ohio
with the Appalachian mountains
a far cry to my east and
the Mississippi River to my west.
But I feel in the wind the echoes of my neighbors.
Here our country melds into something not quite
south, east, west or north.
It's something else entirely.
Jesse Stuart said we were the heart of this country.
I believe he was right.
The blood flows thru the heart.
If you come to visit and take some time out
to meet us you'll find us as welcoming as
a Day Lily's delicate flower is to the sun. 
We embrace what we were, who we are
and what we will become with patience
and a bit of what happens, happens for a reason.
It will all work out.
But just in case let's just stay out of the fray.