<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362540" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hidden Roots</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In Memory Of My Late Brother<br>William Verdun Harris<br>1941 - 2003</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today my mind seemed everywhere, <br>but on the job, I was doing. <br>It started in my childhood <br>and moved into my teenage years <br>and finally into my adulthood. <br>Along the way examining the roots <br>I had laid down all those years ago. <br>Unfortunately, they were not firm roots <br>and I drifted from here to there, <br>my heart never settling in any place I wanted as a home. <br>Within me, there was a struggle <br>and I knew not why, then it surfaced <br>in between the pages of a letter that came from far away. <br>It told me something <br>that at first I could not believe, <br>of how part of my past had been closeted from me. <br>I knew then where my roots lay <br>in a land far across the sea. <br>I travelled to meet my past, <br>but sadly, before I could cement those hidden roots <br>they were gone and part of me was taken away. <br>Now I often wonder what might happen years before <br>if I had known about those hidden roots. <br>How different would my life have been? <br>There is no way of telling <br>as I learned to late about those roots <br>and time has now run out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">20 February 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362540" data-title="Hidden Roots de David Harris" data-description="In Memory Of My Late Brother William Verdun Harris 1941 - 2003 Today my mind seemed everywhere, but on the job, I was doing. It started in my childhood and moved into my teenage years and finally into my adulthood. Along the way examining th..."></div> </div> </div>

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