Giving Thanks

Thanks, mom and dad, who both brought me here

Who showed me life’s path, but let me steer

Thanks, also, to my sister and to my brother

Who managed, somehow, not to kill one another

Thanks to both my son and wonderful wife

Who were, and are, the best thing in my life

Thanks to you, family and friends

Who helped me along life’s curves and bends

Thanks to the weather; sun, wind, rain and snow

Which helped me to love the four seasons so

Thanks to you, writers of story and poem

Who made me glad that I got to know ‘em

Thanks to every distiller and brewer

Who’s strong drink helped me speak a bit truer

Thanks to musicians, singers of song

Whose music filled my heart all day long

Thanks to inventors, creators of things

Who turned on my light and gave our world wings

Thanks to all workers that labor and toil

Who forged my nation from steel and soil

Thanks to military men and women

Who fought for my country and for my freedom

Thanks to all those who came before me

Who made this world that I know and see