Dear Ancestor (Unknown)

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Dear Ancestor

Unknown

Your tombstone stands among 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’d 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 among 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.

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