Hide and Seek - Poem

Hide and Seek

Up and down

Louise Larsen

   Documented ground

Pages of individual

   Names abound

Whose father, mother

   Sister, child

Whose grandparent

   Have I found?

Birth, death

   Marriage certificate

Records and lives

   Calling

For us to turn

   Find and seek

Our past generations

   Reaching

Infant death

   Widowed wife

Laboring father

   Or son

Evidence, identity

   Land and property

All for only one

   Reason

That all be bound

   In one eternal round

Heaven’s forever family

   Found

Janice Harten

July 14, 2012
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