Sunday, August 31, 2014

Homecoming



Over the years we've always gathered,
kids and dogs and cackling
as food gets from stove to table.
We are an odd bunch, 
a gathering of differences with a common history,
and I always enjoyed the variety
of the bloomings.
The over-arching umbrella of Family
should be wide enough
to accommodate all.
The good will should always be
a given.

This year we'll do it again,
but the older I get, the more bittersweet 
the gathering,
some new faces added,
some old faces absent 
from around the table,
some by death,
some by choice,
which makes the empty spaces 
painful to a mother's heart,
wondering how many
more homecomings
will there be,
and will the next time
we're all together
be at my funeral?




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