Family Connections

from one generation to another
we learn about our heritage,
its values and moral conditionings,
we trust our ancestral dialogues,
the influence from which we
select and design our futures...
rejecting their pejorative attitudes
that seek to make us like them,
we hold hands, linking our minds
together in familiar harmony, 
a family of mutual understanding,
a family of mutual support,
a family so diversified in its
beliefs that we sit on each other's
doorsteps as if we were strangers,
failing to see the connections
due to the words and actions,
forming a mote around our
behavior castles in which we live
our lives with only those who
think like us or act like us or
might be willing to break bread
during the holiday...  we are not
like our ancestors at all nor was
it ever meant to be as each new
generation perceives history has
little to do with their happiness.

November 1, 2023