Family Quandary

Family Quandary

I posed myself a quandary,

If I were with my family’

That’s everyone with common genes,

We know each birth and share death scenes.

I flip through pictures here and there,

I’ve felt each smile, I know each stare,

I’ve watched so many; seen so much,

My fam’ly likes to stay in touch!

Some fam’ly lives quite far away,

A land with fjords they call Norway,

But, now my heart is filled with cheer,

I see their daily pictures dear.

Now on to point the quandary,

If I were with my family,

And, on some island we were smashed,

Our plane is down, yes, it has crashed.

If I would lose in tragedy,

What persons would I hope to see?

“Why everyone, why everyone!”

“I could not lose, but anyone!”

We would survive with tears and smiles,

We would survive in all the trials,

In every pain; we all would know,

We loved each family member so!

Peter Lowell Paulson

July 8, 2014

PS: This is the family picture I saw this morning.  We have so many other family members.  I just started with this!