Grandpa, I love you...

Not long ago, stood a young man overlooking the blue sea -

and thought, that ocean crossing is for me -

His father's parting words were,

"If you don't like it there, you can always come back home, to mom and me."

A week or so it took, arriving at Ellis Island,

"Check me in, for I have a train for Sib-a-ley.

He loved his family and country - all war torn and such,

but soon found, America, his home to be.

Grandpa,

I love you...

I'll play and pray while you are away...

Mango XOXO