The holidays

She has thirty cousins, and family spread over
Multiple states,  family text messages so plentiful
She can ignore 50% without missing a thing.
What bounty!
She'll be with her extended family at Thanksgiving
Laughing and cooking, no invitation needed from
This clan, they are family.
He has a wife and a dog, his fractured family is bitter.
Thankful for the love he has, but wishful for a crowd that
Surrounds him with love all year round, a crowd to eat turkey,
A wishfulness that never goes away.