Devotional Poetry

Family Portrait

Family Portrait

Who is included in a family portrait?
Only the mother, father, and children they've raise?
Or does it include the children's wives, husbands, daughters, and sons?

Family is a concept
understood through the rotation
of the Earth on its axis.

It is a reality
going beyond both egg and sperm.

As the earth revolves
family evolves;
its boundaries are extended.
Moving
beyond the comprehension
of genetic kinship
to take in
the totality of existence.

Poet's Note: ▼

I wrote this in 147 B.E. The inspiration was a question someone sent to an advice columnist about who should be in a family portrait.