Thursday, March 10, 2022

FAMILY

Taking the gauntlet of support...                                        a

Reaching out when others turn away...                              b

Reconciling differences of rage                                         c

With words unspoken, just a look,                                    d

A touch, a feeling, an embrace.                                         e

Lives that intertwine like lace,                                           e

Whose history could fill a book                                         d

With pictured stories on each page                                    c

That fade with age to shades of gray                                 b

In vague statistical reports.                                                a

 

Families are made to give;                                                   f

Conception itself a gift of life                                              g

To an unsuspecting innocent child                                       h

To be nurtured and coddled until the day                             i

It can stand and walk and run on it's own,                           j

And decide for itself it is fully-grown.                                 j

But even as we make our way,                                             i

And stumble, falter and trek through the wild,                   h

Family pulls us through all the strife,                                 g

Feeding the sustenance needed to live.                               f

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