This Poem was Submitted By: Sandra J Kelley On Date: 2002-03-21 20:15:50 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!

Click Here To add this poem to your "Voting Possibilities" list!


In the same kind of way...

In the same kind of way that my father told us that the egyptian pyramids were  made out of georgia marble, and that the jews ruled the world with their black secret police, he told us that Janet Reno was his sister. And in the same kind of way I had of  disagreeing without quite listening I dismissed this information also. This was different though, Janet acknowledged having a family that she was ashamed of and, what she said was no longer about strangers but, about my family and perhaps about me though we had never met.  I started listening.  I had missed too many voices in my childhood, growing up far from the south I was born in, not to wonder if this too  was a voice I had missed.  The geneology  project I started in graduate school was left unfinished.  I found I could not  turn it in with all the missing names. Names of my fathers brothers who died in  World War II.  I sometimes wonder how the same  blood can run through such different veins.

Copyright © March 2002 Sandra J Kelley


Sorry, there are no critiques for this poem in our system... If the poem is older, the critiques have been purged! Poetry Contests Online at The Poetic Link

Click HERE to return to ThePoeticLink.com Database Page!