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