Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving day

No crowds or family gathering

Just us

And a feast from the land

Where generations lived, sweated, loved, and died.

Ashes scattered

Becoming a part of it

We gambled

Wagering years of life and youth

For the chance to be here

To look back and belong

To the timeless cycle

Of birth, life, and death

Without fear

Because she is beside me

As we ride the currents

On this piece of the blue lifeboat

Drifting through eternity

Together