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Gay H. Baynes

To an unknown Ancestor

Bound by blood,
Separated by time, stories told and silenced;
                     I cannot call you by name
                     But I feel you just the same.
Hidden doors open and I read the hieroglyphs 
           you left behind. Tales of courage, sacrifice, 
           regrets and victories.
Riding a cold sea to freedom, death on a battlefield,
            slavery rejected at great cost, 
            a fiery orator, a plague survivor, 
            nursing mothers and proud elders. 
                     I cannot call you by name
                     But I feel you just the same. 
I bow to you in gratitude for the fruits of your completions. 
I accept the incomplete scripts waiting for my additions. 
I bow to you for all you endured and thus spared me
For the gift of genes that makes my dreams possible 
                      I cannot call you by name
                      But I feel you just the same. 

Gloria Karpinski 
Midnight Rainbows 
www.gloriakarpinski.com