The Lonely Genealogist by Dave Draper (c) 2023
I'm the family historian and genealogist!
I know all my ancestors; I have quite a list!
I have famous cousins, aristocrats as well,
Then those infamous ones, in a prison cell!
I try to tell my family, but they just turn away.
They don't want to hear the tells I tell of yesterday!
They're caught up in Tic Toc, or the video games they play.
My eyes start to mist up when they all walk away.
So I head out to the Cemetery, and sit beside a grave.
I say hello, chat to them, and then start to pray.
I talk about their family, and how they were so brave.
And they have to listen, 'cause they can't get away!
I head back to my lonely room, and turn my lap top on!
It's hooked up to three monitors, so I know what's going on!
Find A Grave, Family Search and Legacy on one.
Ancestry and Wikitree fill the other screen that’s on.
On the third I watch the news, or play a game of Solitaire.
My dogs bark at the mailman, out the window we all stare.
And I think to myself, "Am I the only one who cares?
And when I pass away, will I be listed there?
Probably not, but my lap top they’ll take, reboot and erase
All those precious pictures and my pretty face!
The stories I have recorded, they'll be gone; They'll end!
And with my dusty ashes, they'll be blowing in the wind!
But If I have a tombstone, placed under those skies of blue
There will be message carved in it, I think is pretty cool:
"You didn't listen to my stories, and called me an old fool!
So now let me sleep, I won't be listening to you!
This poem appears on Draper Stories by The Draper Family located here:
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Draper_Family_Stories_by_The_Draper_Family#The_Lonely_Genealogist
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