NEW FAMILY DAY

NEW FAMILY DAY

Front and center, kids, form a line
with the judge behind his bench.
No need to mention,
official momming, the agenda today.
First, a chance for those with something to say.
Then, Emily, fourteen, has a paper to sign.

Years of uncertainty, now o’er the legal cusp.
Regimes bend and slide,
the new taking wing to soar,
not with a mighty roar
but the clear quiet clap
of Emily’s tap.

Rap, rap.
The gavel’s tap
triggered tears,
then applause
and cheers.

Rap, rap.
Capturing the day,
lovers’ hopes.
Despair is so last year.

Rap, rap.
Olivia swiveled the judge’s chair
while Emily, the eldest, heard
her sentence:  years
arranging family dinners,
February twenty-third.

Rap, rap.
Photographers walked,
indeed,stalked,
poking lenses
into unfolding events.

While they nosed
Hannah and Alyssa posed,
squirming their best courtroom grins.

DRK   http://dennis-keefe.blogspot.com
3/24/12