Summer Family Reunion

A family gathering

Summer Family Reunion

I’m Overwhelmed

Surrounded

By all of you

It’s just too much!

 

You’re laughing

Talking

Farting

Coughing

Choking

 

There’s no room for me

Where do I fit in?

The intensity of emotions

Is too high

 

People aging

People dying

Babies cooing

Chicken frying

 

I don’t have the right job

Where are my children?

My husband never attends

 

I love you so much

It’s too hard to say goodbye

Seeing you makes me cry

Why do we all have to die?

Let’s all live forever

 

I have no control,

Losing myself

Each time one

Of you die,

Oh, how much

I secretly cry

 

Tables filled with

Fresh vegetables from the garden

Grilled meats and

And tasty fruit pies

 

Softball games in the sunny fields

Hours of swimming and playing in

The lake or hotel pool

Dancing all night at the disco

Late night pizza runs

Watermelon fighting

Fun with the seeds

 

The tears

The jokes

The memories

The card games

The long walks on the

Windy dirt roads

With cousins

 

Oh how I look forward

To these precious moments

With my family each year

 

Oh how I cherish

These days

We share together

As a family

 

Author's Note

We still meet every year.
I look forward to every one.

Reviews

[Tina Kline]

This tells a wonderful story of the joys of family, how we're all pulled together whether we like it or not or perhaps that's why we do it, because we love even when none of us are perfect. Families sure create emotions, that's for sure.

[Darkest Rose]

I love this! I love meeting up with all my family so I get the emotions in this! I love the wording in this, fab write :)

[Jvl narasimharao]

Life is such a joy but unfortunately it is not permanent.You wrote it beautifully

[knightcall]

Precious is exactly right.

[Zeitgeist Manifesto]

You capture the highs and lows of this gathering perfectly.
I loved this one.

[M Garcia]

So nice. You fill the page with good and bad memories. We have them every year but its is harder to attend them now.

[The Analog Kid]

Sad but true. Nice reflection of the emotions that we face in those situations.

[A Risen Heroine.]

Such a great imagery.
I really liked it, time with family is great!
Well done.

~A Fallen Heroine~

[Jibey]

Yeap... such lively affairs...we are a very close family and when we get together we always have a great time... and the uncles and aunts play with the kids and they like to involve us... so it's all good... But I liked the lively chaos you depicted, Marie

[?]

farting, lol loved that.
You seemed to have been writing about my family reunions. They are so much fun, sometimes like you have written I feel a little left out, sitting in the corner. My husband never goes either. Kids are all grown so they hardly go. Im a people watcher, so love watching all, do all those things you described. And hate it when the next one rolls around usually someone will no longer be there.
You have described this all so well Marie.