Excellent

So nice when family far and near can get together.

Thanksgiving with Family

by HarryT

Our family travels miles to Mom and Dad’s home Drive from the highway, then down old familiar streets Brown leaves falling, rolling like blowing sea-foam Drive passed the snack shop where the gang used to meet   Point out the grammar school attended years ago Spot the tree out of which I fell and got a broken elbow Everything seems smaller, but somehow feels the same I guess some things never do truthfully change   Mom and Dad’s house looming straight ahead Space in the driveway still crackled asphalt black Pull behind Dad’s old truck, he painted fire-engine red House filled except for brother Joe, who never came back   Flash of old times when we kids sat at a rickety card table Mom got a new one for our kids now, much more stable Dad says, everyone tell one thing they are thankful for I have to stop little Alice; she wants to say much more   Our families feel love, that time and distance can’t sway Next year we’ll be together in our hearts we all pray My wish simply for us all to make it through another year Hopefully, without masks and with all those we hold dear