The In-Law

 

I’m not sure how it happened,
                But you slipped in one day,
Became part of our family
                And stole our hearts away.
 
You were fully grown,
                With a mind of all your own—
You had your way of doing things,
                Your memories of home.
 
But soon we found that through a lense
                Quite different did you view
The world about us and the things
                We all thought we knew.
 
You had your family’s recipes
                For meatballs and for pie,
You had different jokes you knew,
                And things that made you cry.
 
The games you played were new to us,
                Your songs we’d never sung.
Your traditions, too, were different,
                And the things you did for fun.
 
Through you we’ve learned to open wide
                Both the heart and mind,
And every day we share with you
                More blessing true we find.
 
So this is just to tell you
                How much richer we have found
Our family has grown
                Ever since you’ve been around.