Kenneth's+Poem

  The Parents of My Parents My parents were younger than I am, going through a major period in their growth. Did my grandparents worry about how this would change them as the Cultural Revolution introduced them to hardships and violence that could change a child's view on the world forever? Did they worry about how their kids would become well educated with the nation a mess as schools closed and educators such as     my grandparents were scorned? Did they cry when their kids left for the fields instead of for school, preparing for days of hard work and no hope for the future? Did they cry when my parents left home with the possibility of never being reunited to go to college in America in search of     a better life for themselves and for me? Did they cry tears of joy or were they only tears of sorrow?