<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=484762" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Part Of The Big Family Tree</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">retrace the steps<br>finding the footprints of my ancestors<br>their fingers carved in the limestones<br>of old spanish churches and <br>municipal halls</div><div style="margin:10px 0">howling sounds of their sufferings<br>on forced labor and constant whippings<br>they found the escape on wooden boats<br>paddling their way <br>tossed by big waves<br>and uncertain dark nights<br>towards the Sulu sea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">they found land where they are free<br>built their houses and made love all the way<br>bathe in the wide and long winding rivers<br>embraced the sea and acquired their territories<br>for years the wrote their names on the long lists<br>on tombstones</div><div style="margin:10px 0">i am here and they are pleased<br>i am writing about them<br>and what they started once<br>i shall continue<br>what they have seen i shall see again<br>on this big tree with roots down the deepest earth<br>and branches and twigs like a hundred hands and fingers<br>strecthing out to the skies<br>i am one of the buds<br>coming out from its bark<br>i have tiny breathing cells spreading looking out for more openings</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</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=484762" data-title="A Part Of The Big Family Tree de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="retrace the steps finding the footprints of my ancestors their fingers carved in the limestones of old spanish churches and municipal halls howling sounds of their sufferings on forced labor and constant whippings they found the escape on wooden..."></div> </div> </div>

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