A Family

A Family
By. Devin Owens

Is a family someone who has your back?

No, scratch that is a family something?

Yes, something that fills in the cracks

In fact, is a family really a mom and dad?

Is a family just a word that you heard?

When you were growing up that your mom,

Dad, aunt, and uncle confirmed?

Is family something we learn? To make

Our chest warm, slowly turning to heart burn

Hold on, maybe a family is a safety net

That we can always fall into

Is it that simple? See some might argue that point

And say it’s a mother’s warmth and a father’s strength

Or a fathers warmth and a mothers strength

Either way, there are no missing pieces to this puzzle

Does family keep you out of trouble?

Or is it better when you’re in trouble with them

Oh, I know, family is a secret people won’t understand

And there is no woman or man who ever will

Is family water that stays still because it’s a constant?

But if that were the case then so would day and night

They’re brother and sister, no…that isn’t right

Wait, they’re husband and wife

Everything synchronized, everyone does their part

A whole bunch of strings like they were attached to a harp

Playing a beautiful melody, calming every heart

A family is love, no matter who’s there or where you go

A family is arguing, leading to making up

A family jumps into danger when one member is stuck

A family says you’re right, even when you’re wrong

Whenever you’re weak, they make you feel strong

They’re everything I just said they were

They’re everything that you won’t even admit

Probably out of the fear that they’ll get up and quit

But family is more than mom and dad, brother and sister

They’re aunts and uncles, cousins and friends

Cats and dogs, cradled in the hands of God

Whether you’re angry, sad, happy or mad

In the end, family is all that we have