We're traveling to Bakersfield to pay tribute
from all points across the continent
Family by relation
Family by choice
Family by happenstance - as much one as the other
We're her six adult children
who's subsequent offspring range
from children and early adolescents through
forty-somethings, each curious
Enough to put our lives on hold,
we'll get together
for a week
We're adoptees
from forty years ago plus
Significant others, new loves and old
We're continuing devotion
to a lady whose home was acceptance
Multiple time zones traveled,
to the little bungalow's front yard
The San Joaquin Valley in July
All are welcome
Always were
2 comments:
Beautiful sis! It was precious, tender, deep, bittersweet and heaven...wasn't it?
I love you.
It was and is tremendous. Thank you for your very large part. And thanks to your family.
My love your way too.
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