My Great Great Grandfather
Today I was totally awestruck,
Found many family photos
When we had moved
That had been packed,
but not numbered
in this mystery box,
Laying quietly, naively,
It’s contents
Blew off my socks.
I stared with unbelief
At this picture,
As my ancestry was revealed,
It was hiding under some
Documents, concealed,
From view, I shook the
Document, out fell this gem
From the 19th century, unbelievable,
Inconceivable,
The child in the photo
My grandfather as a baby,
With his grandfather.
His mother,
My great grandmother.
My grandfather
Sent this to me
In nineteen seventy,
It was put in a box
And forgotten, until today,
A scene from Turkey
A place far away,
But meant something
To me, so dear and so close,
Those old-fashioned clothes,
The generations between us
Seemed to disappear,
As I heard my papou
Whisper from heaven,
In my ear,
So glad you this found
This box and photo
Today, did you not
Notice it’s half open lid,
Its contents hid
For a century and a half,
It was time you knew
My grandfather too!
PAPOU IN GREEK MEANS GRANDFATHER
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