A poem about becoming family and being family

The West is Wild

But this trailer is a warm home

Three sisters come together to support, love and embrace the future

A love for a family that lives eternally within our hearts

A love for a place and a moral upbringing that continues to bring us together

Here we gather in the last months, weeks, days of Mom

We should be wrecked with impending grief to come

But all we feel is a love for family, curiosities of life, of God in its entirety

Dad still gets up early to feed the hoard of multigenerational stray cats that live beneath the stairs

Little Sister is still the little sister amongst her two older twin sisters

We are all strong

I am marrying this family in less than a year, yet I love this family now.

*image from: By Cheryl Dudley (Flickr: From Kamiak Butte) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons