Family Secrets

​Their blue blood runs through your black-skinned veins, but do you know who you are?
 
Descendant of the French and the African, the oppressor & oppressed, body laced with French surnames. 
 
Do you know who you are???
 
Heir to their wealth and opulence in a country of so little. 
 
Now exiled in a foreign land with nothing but blank pages from your past. 
 
Fear of returning so great it casts amnesia upon you for generations.
 
Years later they search for photos that you never took because the trauma of your departure was so strong. 
 
Sons
Grandsons
Next of kin
 
Will they ever know who you are?