FAMILY TIES
A sluggish poem appraising family
A group of people related by blood;
who have vowed to protect the brood
A group of people related by marriage;
Its elasticity determined to a great extent by our carriage
Brought together through consanguinity;
bonded by the ties of affinity
We’re bounded by nature to disagree;
Indeed we disagree to agree
our views sometimes differ
but we would never
be pulled apart by our differences
nor the silences
of our aching hearts
begging to be poured out
we might hold grudges for an hour or more
that just leaves my heart longing the more
we share the good and bad times together
in our memories we keep each other forever
we cannot be separated by fate
and every single day shall be a date
trapped in memoirs
serving as reservoirs
of every second, minute, hour, day, month and year spent
without a dent
