Ancestors

The people who came before us often seem so far away...

just photographs of people printed in black and white and gray... 

but they were alive once just like you and me...

and they saw things that we today still see...

the same sun shone on them in the early afternoon...

they looked upon the same stars and the same bright moon...

they faced challenges like us though the challenges have changed...

they were people just like us though that idea seems so strange...

and we must thank them for our lives and world that they wrought...

a world that they changed with every battle that they fought...

so we gladly acknowledge the people that came before...

the people who suffered and the people who went to war...

people who had lives that weren't so different from ours...

people with which we share our moon and our stars...

our ancestors who are a part of us to our very core...

they are the people who came before...