The Ancestral Burden

2023 5th & 6th Grade Poetry Honorable Mention

A tree
           stretching back years
                                                       and years
regular people
striving
           to
                       Change the world.

Some forgotten
                       some not
Almost a famous singer
            Almost a famous judge
                        Almost a famous writer.
Almost

almost

almost

            falling
into the empty void of almosts
                                                         forgotten.
Memories,
                        each generation
tasked with
Rising up
to
                        Change the world.