Family Petals

We are each a petal

Born of a family

Made to be special

And live happily

To be off on ones own one day

And, yet hold on a while

Life's winds sail us away

Independence, a trial

The ups and downs, the spin

As turmoil ebbs and flows

Each alone in the end

To where? Only heaven knows

Some are carried quite far

Some fall not far from the tree

Each to seek who they are

What they are meant to be