Generations stretch in both directions
Grandparents, aunts and uncles,
Children, grandchildren, and cousins
Linked through blood ties and dna chromosomes
We are family despite our uniqueness
We share a commonality-ties that bind
Together over time and space
Although I do not personally know
My second great grandmother
I’m sure she loves and cares for me
One day we’ll meet and I’ll ask her
About her life and challenges
I know she’ll want to hear
About my life, and my children’s lives
As they are also part of her posterity
Just as I, one day, will be a second
Great grandmother to children
Yet to be born on earth, I will love them
And be interested in their lives
And what of you my friend
You are family also, for we are all cousins
Of one kind of another
Related through common ancestors
When we go back far enough,
The family of Adam and Eve
Our great great great…grandparents