The roots of a family brood lay
In the hopes and inspirations
Of dreams bred invoiced
Determining clan limbs
budding and prospering
Or stagnating while decaying
Kindred folk impart insistence
On hereditary adherence
Staunch values and traditions
Our conscientious cogent caretakers
Of primary childhood profiles
Which we imperceptibly evolve from
Or the training in coping before we do
Those fleeting illusory influences
Where we consider our innate assumptions
Which gives us our strengths and deficits
Trait dynamics primarily detrimental
The teachings that we ferociously consume
Until we are sufficiently strong enough
To separate differentiate and orientate
Those collected experiences into objectivity
Influenced by abstract compassion
And sometimes impatient thirsty love
Camille Elaine Thomas, December 2023