The Family Unit

One more day in the house
Cleaning up memories that took a
family a lifetime to gather.

Passing on one by one they all left treasures.
Or better known to some as
"One mans trash another mans treasure"

How do I decide what to keep?
How dose one decide whats important?
Leafing through someones memories as if
your touching each heart in one way or another.
Will I throw away something by mistake.
Or will I keep something thats nothing.

The kids are tired now. Taking on a 'famil's tragedy
that also includes their fathers death.
How will they get the courage they need?
Who will help them till the end?
They are so young in years yet so
wise in wisdom.

Sorting through things that was once their
fathers grandparents and uncles.
Can they stay strong? Will they pick out things
that mean something to them but nothing to others?
Or will they chose to take nothing and let
the past die quietly?

We miss them so. This family that was once ours.
Inside we take certain memories that will
stay in our hearts forever.

As the years go on so will our lives.
Memories will fade and life as we once knew
will grow fewer in though.
But we will never forget

The family now gathers in death as they did in life.
I'll play back  memories that somehow seem to bring
the past to life, if only in moments

As the family passed on before us so will we all.
One day we will return to our yesterday, and
our Family Unit" will be as one,
While another family will change.