Forget your heritage

It is destiny to forget our heritage

life makes us grow in other directions

like a shattered tongue

ancestors are our Babel

we crumble apart

away from our origins.

Knowledge of where we come from

reveals our origons and helps

to define who we are

but then life takes us beyond our roots.

Pathways through life are random

work, family, friends and our hearts

determine the moments beyond ourselves.

We grow our own branches

beyond the family tree.

Part of who we are is formed by our ancestors

the murmur of their struggles

are a piece of our own voice

we are a part of them

and they are embodied in us,

a continuous spiral of milestones

twirling on through and beyond us.

Even if we forget

their stories are our stories

their faces are in the mirror

each hand holding onto the next

reaching up to now

raising us up and

pushing us forward.