My chosen family

Whom I share unfamiliar paths,

But cherish unruly similarities.

My chosen brothers and sisters,

Aunts and uncles,

Cousins and 2nd cousins

.....twice removed.....

My chosen family

Who knows me more than my mother and father,

More than my brothers and sisters.

My chosen family

Whom I fight for every day,

and lay with every night.

Who is there through thick and thin,

and will get drunk with me at the end of all of it.

My chosen family

Whom I can't love enough

and your turkey and stuffing can't begin to appreciate

The mark they've left on my heart.

Happy belated Thanksgiving.