The Crazy Reunion

About a reunion in my family. Partially ficticious but mostly true. Outlaw's contest

The day is young
when the feast just begun.
No talking in the room
No one wanted to be there
Not even the young.

The adults are angry
Knowing that their parents
Forced them to come.
To try and be the family
The elderly parents
Thought they remembered.
So the rapture
Is thoroughly present
In the rented community center.

The grandchildren try to escape outdoors,
To get away from the tension
As thick as fog.
They know not why
The grown-ups,
Their parents
Act as they do
Hating each other.
All they are aware of
is that it was something in the past
that pops up at the most inopportune times
When what should be a joyous occasion.

A reunion of a family
Gone bad
By the children
Whom love their parents
But hate each other

The grandchildren prayed
that this would all end soon
So they could all go home
To their nuclear family
Where everyone got along.

The reunion was a bust
Why do grown-ups even try
The grandchildren thought
When they knew the outcome
Would be pain and heartache
All around.

It is a silly notion topretend
So why go through the motions
and emotions?

Even the grandchildren
Have nothing in common
Because they come from everywhere
in the United States

The reunion does end raptuously
As it had begun
Each child of the elderly couple
Vowing never to speak to one another again

This is how it ends.
The reunion feast from hell.