Through death we find a family long lost
A distant cousin fades away
A name we know but had forgotten
Receded to the vault that is the mind
The place where memories sleep
Until roused by a call from the living
A name we know but had forgotten
Receded to the vault that is the mind
The place where memories sleep
Until roused by a call from the living
Memory of faint faces are stirred
Vagueness jostle to reform a form
Long forgotten if ever really known
Two families divided by maternalism
Two families joined but not together
Yet bonded by a paternal gene
Long forgotten if ever really known
Two families divided by maternalism
Two families joined but not together
Yet bonded by a paternal gene
Inspired by meeting members of my maternal grandfather’s family from his first marriage at a funeral.
10.5.23
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