Curious This Affair Named Family Poem by Stephen Zabaldo

Curious this affair named family,
a terrible and beautiful thing;
the bane and anchor of my sanity.

My blood, my temper, my identity
from the ancestral well of which I spring.
Curious this affair named family.

A concert of comfort and agony,
the chorus from which I'm muted or sing;
the bane and anchor of my sanity.

A precious and peculiar gallery,
‘till death, enduring from womb and to wing.
Curious this affair named family.

A velvet mossed rock of security,
a slippery stay to cast off, or cling;
the bane and anchor of my sanity.

A kindred campaign of catastrophe
or a harmonious herald to ring.
Curious this affair named family;
the bane and anchor of my sanity.