FAMILY

Taking the gauntlet of support...                                        
Reaching out when others turn away...                              
Reconciling differences of rage                                         
With words unspoken, just a look,                                     
A touch, a feeling, an embrace.                                          
Lives that intertwine like lace,                                           
Whose history could fill a book                                        
With pictured stories on each page                                    
That fade with age to shades of gray                                  
In vague statistical reports.                                                

Families are made to give;                                                 
Conception itself a gift of life                                            
To an unsuspecting innocent child                                     
To be nurtured and coddled until the day                           
It can stand and walk and run on it's own,                        
And decide for itself it is fully-grown.                               
But even as we make our way,                                          
And stumble, falter and trek through the wild,                   
Family pulls us through all the strife,                                 
Feeding the sustenance needed to live.                              

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