On Family

Family

In our tallest moments
We listen with full hearts
And laugh out loud
At life’s misgivings at remembered stories
Where as children we entertained
Through fearfulness or foolishness
And in our less wholesome moments
Thick blood and hot heads and hearts
That beat with riddled emotions
So loud louder than the car
We tangle love with heated words
Spurring sparring hardened hearts
That try to find a path of least resistance
And meet a wall
Built up stone by stone layers
Heavy with history