Thanksgiving

We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner at North Ranch with 100 or so Escapees. I wrote this ditty to use at dinner, but didn't get a chance, so I'll share it with you.

Thanksgiving

What makes the day called Thanksgiving
A reflection on the joys of our living?

Do we remember the pain and the fear
To heighten the thoughts of the things that we cheer?

Is the food and the drink a symbol of thanks
A token of having good flesh on our flanks?

Do we honor our forbears good fortune and luck
That brought them together and kept them so stuck?

Do we think of the soldiers that gave us their lives
Of their bravery and honor, that our country survives?

Maybe we cherish the God in our dreams
That saves us from harm and does what He deems?

That we were the prize at the end of the line
And we share our good fortune, with a dinner so fine?

Whatever the reasons that calls forth this feast
We pray thet it be not the last, nor the least.

Be festive, enjoy, turkey squash spuds and peas,
You've a room full of friends, all your fellow Escapees