she was a young girl, named Louise, leaving her whole her family and many a friend <br />and boarded a boat in Holland <br />for New York <br />a new country, a new life for this 15-year old girl from Poland <br />for the European situation would be bleak <br />she would venture the Atlantic for almost two weeks <br />she would eventually meet her future husband Jozef Polaniec <br />they spoke the same language, shared the same faith, and customs, <br />she would find work in NYC as a maid/housekeeper, <br />she would eventually learn to make Gifelte fish for her Jewish family that she tended for <br />she would respond to an ad which was placed by Jozef <br />that she had met years prior <br />they were engaged and married <br />later this once peasant girl had two children, one died an early death; one <br />lived. <br />this once peasant girl and her husband had five living grandchildren <br />they all lived in a home with a single bathroom in Hamtramck <br />she would eventually have her daughter give her grandson some music lessons <br />I owe you Louise <br />for that farm girl from Poland had my mother who eventually had me <br />So Happy Birthday Louise, I will always think of you on this day. <br /> <br />4/1/2011<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-peasant-girl-who-left-poland/
