for you to let me know <br />that i must pay for all that the family owed <br />from the past <br />the suffering souls of my great fathers <br />and fathers of my fathers <br />and their mothers <br />i am sorry but i was not the one <br />that committed the blunder <br />that is their business and mine is different <br />look at me <br />have i not suffered enough to deserve all these <br />genetic retaliations? <br />hold my hands <br />don't you feel that all these tremblings <br />in fear <br />are not enough to pay for their <br />misdeeds? <br />your paranoia is mine too. <br /> <br />but somehow, all these must be stopped. <br />the wombs of our mothers are tested with pain <br />one leg to life the other held by death <br />yet they walk this valley of death without question <br />they breathe your air without suspicion <br />they live the way they ought to <br />and they die <br />without much ado.<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/healing-the-family-tree/
