Ramage

National Catholic Reporter, May 14, 1999 by Marion Storjohann

(Sonnet for my Descendants)

   In you, my blood will flow through unborn years
   and dreams that danced down all my days
   will shimmer in yours; salt of my tears
   your lips will taste. In many ways
   I will be with you. Sparks from my fire
   your lives will set ablaze; from me, the root,
   what astral-blossomed boughs may yet aspire,
   what ancient flavor hide in future fruit?

   So shall I live, some part of me survive
   in other minds, our kinship to proclaim.
   Seeds of my visioning will someday thrive --
   new music to old runes. The very Name
   that in my heart now jubilantly sings
   will lift your souls upon transcendent wings.

--Sr. Marion Storjohann, SS. CC. Fall River, Mass.

Sr. Storjohann entered religious life when she became a widow. She has four children, 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.3