Reflections on a Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgivng isn't that time of year
To be alone shedding a silent tear
Especially when your own family steers clear
And you have only your face in the mirror,

Questions come to mind like how did it get this way?
Here you are abandoned and left astray
Remember, they say, it's Turkey Day
Never the less. hard not to feel betrayed,

It's a cloudy blustery day this Thanksgiving day,
The leaves are yellow and the branches sway
Not the best time to be alone anyway
My estranged wife why couldn't you have stayed,

Thanksgiving Day, a time to be thankful
A time to spend with family and be grateful
To put aside feelings of bitterness and not be spiteful
But, in the absence of friends and family to be sorrowful,

In this universe so many things that revolve around
The birth of a nation where freedom could be found
In a new world where survival and fruitfulness abound
On this day please tell me where humanity can resound,

i found an old email where you spoke of you and I
Words that brought a tear to my eye
How we had blended our lives together and I sighed
I remember as dead leaves in the air seem to glide,

We are our own worst enemies you and I
We manage to stay alone and watch the world go by
Living for tomorrow but one day we'll die
Yet, alone on Thanksgiving Day you cry.