On a rare occasion, I had a few days off and was close enough to my parents to go home for Thanksgiving. It was great to finish the first leg of our tour in time to meet up with both my immidiate and extended family. We decided to hand out stationary so everyone could jot down the things they were most thankful for this year. Having temporarily lost my voice the first night back, I had enough quiet time to compose my thanks in verse complete with a rhyming quatrain prologue. I hope you had a brilliantly grateful and serene holiday.
Had I my vocal faculty
I’d say this with verbosity
But from my sore necessity
I’ll state it with simplicity:
I’m thankful for my fam’ly, ev’ryone,
And for th’ amazing things that you have done;
Through times of war your fight has won me peace;
By working sleepless nights you bought me dreams;
You raised me right and true through all your pain,
With late-night talks of God that weren’t in vain;
Of course I can’t forget to mention sis,
Your very presence here’s enough to give us bliss;
Without you I couldn’t be called a man
For you ar’the giants’ shoulders’ on which I stand.
