A journey of discovery It's a journey that took 43 years, but I now have answers to questions I was never allowed to ask and I owe it all to luck. The last living person who knew the truth about my birth broke her vow of silence after watching a TV program. A TV program that showed the reunion of a man with his birth mother. She decided that I deserved to know about "the rich heritage that I came from" her words]. The poems here were written before and after my discovery and cover the spectrum of emotion.