Created Me

Do I laugh like my great grandfather

Who passed it down to his daughter

Whose son raised me up as I am

Will the laugh my daddy taught to me

Continue down our family tree

To children that I one day hope to have

We're all pieces of the past

Crafted by the last

Of the ones who planned their lives to become ours

I am all that they once knew

Molded into who they imagined when they wished upon the stars

Time plants seeds

All that once was theirs, created me

Did my mother's father know that he

Would be the reason I can see

The notes dancing up off the page

And did his mother who came before

Go dancing through their kitchen door

When radios first let her music play

We're all pieces of the past

Crafted by the last

Of the ones who planned their lives to become ours

I am all that they once knew

Molded into who they imagined when they wished upon the stars

Time plants seeds

All that once was theirs, created me

Do I have her smile from hundreds of years ago

Do I squint my eyes like he did when he was a kid

Can our history say why my sister twirls her hair in that way

It is more of who came before

We're all pieces of the past

Crafted by the last

Of the ones who planned their lives to become ours

I am all that they once knew

Molded into who they imagined when they wished upon the stars

Time plants seeds

All that once was theirs

All that once was theirs

Created me