For My Brother, Dennis
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Dennis searched nearly his whole life to find his birth mother without any success; then the science of DNA opened the door for him. Our mother had recently passed away, but he was grateful to find us, his biological family. Dennis died peacefully on August 28th,2021 kinowing he was part of a family who loved him.
You, always searching.
Searching through the remains of dusty city archives
That led you wandering, through rows of granite headstones
Where lifeless identities lay.
Searching through the remains of dusty city archives
The melancholy, haunting, ghostly, faded images
Where lifeless identities lay;
Excavating crumbled lives, stuffed in moldy folders.
What is the future without a past?
Silently, harboring loss and abandonment;
In the shadows you clung to glimpses of hope,
With dreams of your mother's opened arms.
Silently, harboring loss and abandonment;
Relentlessly you continued your vigil, to search
With dreams of your mother's opened arms.
When science revealed our past,we embraced the future.
Copyright © Paulette Calasibetta | Year Posted 2021
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