-A FAMILY- <br /> <br />I have a tree here in my background <br />With names hanging from each limb <br />And when I chance to read each one <br />Love fills me to the brim. <br /> <br />Because each name that hangs there <br />Is just a piece of me, <br />Each so carefully hung there <br />On my Stately Family Tree. <br /> <br />People call me from all over <br />Just to hear a name that's there, <br />And lovingly add a history <br />or a problem we'll all bear. <br /> <br />So throughout the Revolution <br />And later as churches sprang.... <br />Forging through the wilderness <br />Onto the amber plain..... <br /> <br />Through Civil War and contention <br />Friend and family fighting friend.... <br />Generations learning <br />Each one to our lives amend. <br /> <br />And now it stands so stately <br />Each leaf in beauty formed <br />So cherished, each name that hangs there <br />A Family.....My heart is warmed....... <br /> <br /> <br />Author: Carolyn Ford Witt <br />Ms. Caroline <br />© 7-29-06<br /><br />Carolyn Ford Witt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-family-5/
