Family Portrait 

My mother and father still live within me

although they have been gone for many a year.

I see them and hear them as they guided me 

through the traumas of childhood. 

I see them as in these old photographs 

that I look upon when I am sad.

I see them at home where I live 

and along life's trail wherever I go.

I am a product of two beings

and cannot separate myself from them. 

I am they and they are me.  q

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