Ancestry I

I'D LIKE TO KNOW

I'd like to know why there's so much criticism
Why the harsh focus - do we know no other way

Where and when were we loved as children
Our parents were loved as children weren't they

Did their parents disappoint them
Did their parents know they disappointed them

I'd like to know I didn't disappoint my parents
I'd like to know I didn't disappoint my children

I'd like to know if my parents' parents' parents know I loved them
I'd like to know if they know I love them still

I'd like them to know, my future progeny, they've my prayers to realize their failures
and my prayers to realize their successes

I'D LIKE THEM TO KNOW

Collage by SS - "Geisha"
Poetry begun at "Awakening the Creative Spirit" Workshop May 2009