Birth Of Family Poem by Richard Ford Bunuel Whale Carnegie Edison Simon Hitchcock Welles Christ Antunes Rodriguez Kubrick

Your smile heals
my wary heart
strained to its limits
to pressure levels

ready to burst
on the 4th, my eyes
see you as a effervescent
girl not yet a woman

but approaching one
of immense beauty
as though the picture
is a snapshot in time...

You exude happiness
and cheer not matched
or within in shutter distance
I see you and we all see you

for the levity you had
on a day meaning more to me
for having been the birth
of my grandmother

and the descent from her
to my mother and including
her children, like myself
and a birth of a nation