Add a Tradition
Through the years we've lived traditions
but when did they begin?
Through the years, one at a time,
as part of our lives they crept
in.
When my daughter made the Christmas
star,
to hang on our little tree,
I thought of the one when I was
a child
and how my dad lifted me.
Mom's carrot pudding - was it hers
-
or did it start with Gran?
Did Grandma's mother teach her
to quilt
or did she just stitch her plan?
Through the years there was barely
room
to sit everyone 'round the table;
Grandma, cousins, aunts and uncles,
and we were always able
To eat the turkey to the bones,
and of stuffing we ate our fill.
Today everyone is spread around
and don't seem to have the will;
But, through the years, each one
of us
will remember favourite things,
And maybe from the questions they
bring,
a new tradition springs.
We respect and hold to the old
ones -
unafraid of starting a new;
For some will remember them years
from now -
traditions are me and you.
©Joan Adams Burchell
