The Life of Mine

The Life of Mine

If there had not been the new class welcoming party at the dental school

in Indianapolis that Michael Mark and Tena Tyner decided to go to

then my parents would have never met

and if the lady working at the hospital that I was born at

wanted a son instead of a daughter then she may have stole me instead
when she decided to fake a pregnancy and run away with someone elses child

and if the economy in 1980 wasn’t so terrible

then my father wouldn’t have chosen the more unique career path

and entered the Public Health Service

which took him all around the country to meet great friends

in many different states that we still get

to go visit every couple years

and if my grandparents on both sides of my family didn’t decide

to retire to the sunny beaches of the hot state of Florida

then I wouldn’t make those annual trips

were the great times and laughs go down in my memory for ever

and if my family didn’t end up in the wild state of Alaska

then my older brother Justin and I might have never

discovered the exhilarating sport of snowboarding

which we do every weekend of the winter season

at our favorite local ski resort Alyeska

and if I didn’t make it through the accident in the

fast and freezing waters of the famous Kenai River this summer

then I wouldn’t be here writing this poem

in this warm comfortable room in a place

that I like to call home