I saw this on another list and just had to share it with everyone (I apologize if you receive this more than once since I'm sending it to several lists). One woman wrote back that she types this poem on the back of 3x5 index cards, along with her name and address, laminates the cards and attaches them to the stems of fake flowers (or flags?) left at each of her ancestors graves. She encourages anyone interested in her idea to feel free to do the same. I, for one, intend to do just that! Maybe a long lost cousin will find it and contact me! 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 One hundred 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. I saw this poem awhile back. I have typed it up on the back of several 3 x 5 index cards, laminated them & attached them to the stems of silk flowers to leave at the graves of my various ancetors. I also add my name & address on the card, that way if another descendant happens by, they can contact me if they like.