The Heart Of Our Family Poem by Alyssa Marquardt

It is the thing I most admire.
You'll never find anything with so much desire,
To please everyone and everything.
To make you smile, to make you sing.
It is so large,
it is so full.
It's filled with a warmth that never cools.
It is ready to expand for anything or anyone
It's love and acceptance is never done.
When anything goes wrong
It will be there to stand strong.
It pulls us through the floods and fires.
It holds us together,
Like thick, worthy leather.
It's here for me, it's here for you.
When you are happy or when you are blue.
It is there to create,
all of our hope and all of our faith.
It is sometimes a fighter, but always a lover.
It is the heart of my grandmother.
The heart of our family.