----- Original Message ----- From: "Crilley" <crilley@eramp.net> To: <GATAYLOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 10:49 AM Subject: [GATAYLOR-L] Note at Cemetery > Suggestion from another mailing list: > > A friend types this on a 3x5 > card then puts her name, relationship, snail-mail address and e-mail address > on the back, then laminates it, punches a hole in it and ties it to a single > stem artificial flower and puts it on her ancestor's graves when she is > visiting cemeteries whether those close by or in different states. That way > the next person who might be researching may get in touch with her. > > > Dear Ancestor: > Your tombstone stands among the rest; > Neglected and alone > The name and date are chiseled out > On polished, marbled stone. > It reaches out to all who care > It is too late to mourn. > You did not know that I exist > You died and I was born. > Yet each of us are cells of you > In flesh, in blood, in bone. > Our blood contracts and beats a pulse > Entirely not our own. > Dear Ancestor, the place you filled > So many years ago > Spreads out among the ones you left > Who would have loved you so. > I wonder if you lived and loved, > I wonder if you knew > That someday I would find this spot, > And come to visit you. > > > Virginia > > > ==== GATAYLOR Mailing List ==== > > >