The Generations

THE GENERATIONS


for Nana and Papa

"Her birthday is your birthday."
--Richard Brobst


See the generations
see how they gather about you
rains returning to the cloud
circles turning and returning.

See the great poem you have written
in your blood.

See how each is a word
spoken from your loins
to the future
in the language of hope.

Hear the song we all sing together
hear your song of chemistry and decades
think of how it is heard.

Know that you will always be alive in this.


Richard Smyth

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