My Heritage

Brian N.

It’s hard to believe

Many years ago

My family

My ancestors

Sailed to a new world

A new hope

Who would have known

That generations and generations

Of traditions and stories

Was to be born.

And today, as I stand here.

I wonder

All those years

What happened

Poverty

Slavery

Economy

Starvation

Everyone’s heritage has something like that in it.

But nobody’s heritage

Will ever be exactly the same

As my heritage