Family And Love Poem by Jim Yerman

When I think about the poems I've written…love and family are a recurring theme within.
Family is where we learn to love and where our dreams begin.

Our family's love helps guide us to who we're meant to be…
It's where we learn the acceptance, forgiveness and compassion of love's ubiquity.

Family is where we learn to share each other's joy and laughter…
each other's hopes and dreams and fears.
Family is there to hold us when all we have our tears.

Family is where we learn how quickly each moment slips into he past…
Family encourages us to slow down and make every moment last…

With love, I imagine, is how the family is designed…
Family and love are meant to exist together…
to be forever intertwined.

Created in a way that, if we're lucky, we're blessed to see…
whenever we're surrounded by people who love us…we have a family.

Perhaps that's why I write so many poems…and why they mean so much to me…
so many poems that blend together love and family.

Because when I start to write about love and family…
about a world filled with all my sisters and brothers….
I quickly come to realize you can't have one…without the other.

One final reason you'll keep reading poems with the theme of love and family throughout…is because I've been blessed within my life…
to have so much to write about.