Do you ever think of your heritage
your family, grandparents, their parents,
in a manner of speaking, most were immigrants,
a very few can trace themselves to the Mayflower
though scores would like to tell you otherwise,
but we are addressing mostly plainer folk
who came to seek a better life, escape persecution's yoke,
most hoping to jump start their offsprings, providing
apprenticeships, skills, education for their hope,
creating opportunities for them to forge ahead,
enduring hardships, sacrificing part of their own lives
so that the new generation would have an easier time,
could live more comfortably, not have as much to fret.
 

It really hasn't been all that long,
a little over four hundred years
since they settled James Town,
 most immigrants at a later date came,
while still more are arriving each day,
seeking much the same thing
as our forefathers along the way
those who have succeeded,
established themselves, are doing well,
often seem to overlook their more humble
beginnings, let materialism give them a swell head,
many are intolerant of giving other new folks
a chance to progress, to make it, get ahead,
forgetting their forebears had to bear the brunt
so that they in turn could get where they are today
do not forsake nor distort your heritage, but be
proud that from humble origins you came.