family… is a tree of we roots crawl from a common seed growing to offer healthy leaves branches weave unexpectedly connected through a sleeve of time

rewind back to those before to explore an ancestral trajectory too far past, but connected as we

and presently, family is the best of me an extension and connection of the self and lovers sons and daughters dads and mothers

and beyond these borders is a horizon further rivers run in perpetuity the bloodline builds beyond our scene a future will grow, though now unseen

but what does family really mean?

in short, it’s everything…

the good, the bad, and the in between our seams are streams of inner genes lessons gleaned and passed across generations

traditions make up a familial village for it takes one to raise one a unique sensation a variation of each other an extension of what love is

and yet, family is more than this…

it’s a connection in one another a discovery of similarity the overlap of you and me a Venn diagram of we

friends of a different seed contribute to this canopy

so I concede more than the seed,
a relational existence an emotional persistence

for family is everything