Choosing Family - 24" x 24", Acrylic on Fir, $1,850

Choosing Family

Standing never took so long

For with every breath comes the mother and father

Who put you there

Then burlap sacked you

And after all the arguments

Trying to climb free

We still listen and climb right back in

It doesn’t matter how far away they are

We still climb in

And wait frustrated again

Not quite realizing

It’s our choice

Over and over again

And over again

We argue about the same things

Until you see

Those words for what they are

And break free

And teach them that it’s just you and me

And the past that makes us so crazy

Day after day

Not knowing you chose them

And your problems and your fights

You chose every cloud that got in your way

You chose all the winds and the clouds that wrap and bind you

And then you let the blue choose you

It knows you well

You know each other in spirit and in spirit you fell

Each argument is what makes you unclean

When you become life you have to find your way

When life comes you have to know how to play

And body, heart and mind in between

In the air and out

Then become the air itself

Before we again float away

LauraLee K. Harris