The birth of a family
The birth of a family where does it start
Your parents, their parents all play a part
Virtues instilled deep within us all form
Long before an innocent child is born
Family history does have its role
Hardships and struggles take their toll
Ignorance and prejudice often passed down
From generation to generation often it’s found
Intolerance, addictions and other afflictions
Take their own form, in each new addition
Contorting and mixing contaminating innocence
Frequently unnoticed, unknown the consequence
Labor it’s said, is the worst physical pain on earth
Fortunately, that subsides after the child birth
With each new child a new family is born
That is when the new life truly takes form
Each family as different as the members within
Philosophy, psychology and even emotions begin
Evolving and ever changing adapting as needed
Responding together to the way they are treated
Values and virtues learned were passed down
Communication and manners from those around
Reactions displayed dealing with joy and strife
All are absorbed in this, newly formed life
Interaction with others outside the home
Affects the family not one alone
Assumptions and accusations to be family based
Besmirch one and all will feel disgraced
As each family matures and expands
Occasionally a sudden change in plans
Perhaps another child to be born
Or from the family a member torn
Many times families are split apart
Divided in pieces severed at the heart
Then before that pain has run its course
As things settle, and over is the worse
Just as sudden as they split they can also merge
It is not uncommon for families to converge
Often creating pain, anguish and confusion
Seemingly surviving seems just an illusion
Family differences can clearly be seen
Change must be made, like you’re a machine
As sure as death in a family brings pain
Adding members can do the same
Forced to assimilate with someone new
Maybe required to share a dissimilar view
Finding it so difficult to make a change
Hurt and sad your feeling must rearrange
Adapting to create a new family bond
Can’t be done with the wave of a wand
Growing wild the roots of the family tree
Suddenly hundreds more related you see
Steps and halves, cousins’ uncles and aunts
And a whole other pair of grandparents
The family continues to expand and grow
Marriages and babies were expected you know
But with death, divorce, and merges in the branches
The family tree grows larger, and what of the chances
Someday all you will see, will be your FAMILY
poem by Vern Eaker
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