A family is a very special thing.
It shields from storms and lifts us high and helps us sing
It's branches reach for sky, it's roots deep underground
treasures of shared memories everywhere are found
Secret fears and hopes and dreams so keenly sought
private battles witnessed, some won, some lost but bravely fought
Celebration and frustration is the nature of the beast
but such rare lessons to be learned in the splendour of the feast
So I give praise to you my family, I give thanks to you as well
it has much more been heaven than it ever has been hell
I wish for you my family, to laugh, bloom and fly free
for I love you as big as the universe times infinity.
