DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands amoung
the rest;
neglected and alone
The name and date are chiseled
out
on polished , marbled stone
It reaches out to all who care
it is too late to mourn
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of
you
in flesh, in blood, in bone
Our blood contracts and beats
a pulse
Entirely not our own
Dear Ancestor, the place you
filled
one hundred years ago
Spreads out amoung the ones
you left
who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this
spot,
and come to visit you.
Author Unknown.
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