My Ancestry
I'm not quite sure when
they first arrived by boat
stepping onto Ellis Island
which is in New York,
alls I know is that my
ancestors came from
Germany, Wales and Ireland,
probably in the 1850s
or around that time,
when a lot of immigrants
came to New York with
barely a couple of dimes,
escaping their countries
from all different kinds of plights,
the ones from Ireland were
starving from the famous potato blight,
settling down in cold water flats
in different Brooklyn boroughs,
a lot of my ancestors working
printing presses while some of
them were plumbers,
I'm sure they were afraid
when they first came to
the overwhelming "Big Apple,"
and looking for work was
probably stressful and
pretty cumbersome,
in my minds eye I often
think how it might have been
for all of them,
walking around the big city
searching for the American dream
while trying desperately to fit in,
but somehow they made it
and rose above all the strife,
and thanks to them their
future ancestors like me have a
much better life.
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