OUR ROOTS

 My grandmother Kristine Rasmussen and her husband Carl Christensen (not my grandfather)

Over the hills and far away

There is my homeland

I miss each day

The little land

With the ocean shore

There are my roots

Those who came before

It used to be

That Danes like me

Could trace their roots

Back to the Vikings Days

Things are changing, I fear

That the future search for Kings And Queens

Will no longer be there

The Danish roots, as we know them now

Will be replaced somehow

With the Huns and those who came

From the lands below

And soon the Danes will see

That their roots, I fear

Will disappear

The future Danes

Will not search their roots like me

From Kings and Queens

And the Royal heirs

They will declare Shahadah

Ramadan and Zakat

The Danes will go to Hajj

Vibeke Lindhardt

2011