Monday, January 2, 2012

The Strangers in the Box

This poem is widely circulated among family history and genealogy blogs. 
I thought it's meaning is so important that I wanted to share it with my family here... 


Come, look with me inside this drawer,
In this box I’ve often seen,
At the pictures, black and white,
Faces proud, still, serene.
I wish I knew the people,
These strangers in the box,
Their names and all their memories
Are lost among my socks.
I wonder what their lives were like,
How did they spend their days?
What about their special times?
I’ll never know their ways.
If only someone had taken time
To tell who, what, where, or when,
These faces of my heritage
Would come to life again.
Could this become the fate
Of the pictures we take today?
The faces and the memories
Someday to be passed away?
Make time to save your stories,
Seize the opportunity when it knocks,
Or someday you and yours could be
The strangers in the box.

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1 comment:

  1. Thank you for sharing the poem. I really liked your Sharing Memories page. Your blog is really good and cant wait to read more. Thank you for your comment on my own blog. Hope you will come back often.

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