Healing A Broken Family Tree

I am so ecstatic right now as I heard this morning that my 2nd poem has been published on http://www.familyfriendpoems.com the 1st was “A Broken Family Tree”, and this is the 2nd, sequel really to it called “Healing A Broken Family Tree” I would love to hear feedback. Thanks friends. 🙂
http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/healing-a-broken-family-tree

A Broken Family Tree

Love and The Broken Family Tree
Lori A. McBride
When anger and unforgiveness
Invade the very crevices of your heart
It burns fierce like sulfur
As it forces love to depart.

Causing only the mention of a name
To consume you with hate
As its poison reeks havoc
on the next generations fate

This grudge festers on
Keeping you imprisoned in pain
Causing every life force around you
To bare the affects of your strain

For hate and love
Cannot reside in one heart
Just as hate takes a family
And tears it all apart

The heart dies a slow death
As it mourns the loss of love
Never understanding it’s very being
Is created in the heavens above

How can it be reconciled
To LOVE, the creator of life
If the heart still remains
In unforgiveness and strife?

The Great lesson in life’s purpose
What we are sent here…

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Video Poem to A Broken Family Tree”

Click link to see the poem I wrote called “A Broken Family Tree” that “Wildfire Media” posted. It was made into a video poem.

Hi, I am Lori McBride also known by my previous married name Lori A. Cain. This is a poem I wrote called “A Broken Family Tree” in 2001 while I was living in Lake Tahoe, California. I found this on YouTube while searching different links where this poem was used. This is my favorite find. Its a video poem with a young man who recites my poem called “A Broken Family Tree”. Its much more than just reciting though. I was amazed at this rendition put together by a class in which country I am uncertain of.
The end is my favorite part. When it says in the poem “alone I will go, and plant the new seeds where a beautiful tree will grow” and a tiny stem comes forth through the ground. I look at that stem, that little baby tree and know its my granddaughter Trinity. She is 9 months old now and has a sibling on the way. Its this generation in my family that with destroy the axe that has caused suffering from the beginning. I will be forever grateful that “wildfire media” posted this on YouTube. My decendants will all be able to see it hopefully one day. Hope you enjoy the video and I hope you watch it to the end to see the new tree! 🙂 thanks.