A year ago today,

You thought you had everything

Essential for the creation of the perfect

life of love and joy.  Family happy,

friends adoring, beloved waiting...

As cranberry and potato and pie

scents waft from the kitchen, creating

eclectic combinations that define

this day, the multiplicity of loves

you held in your heart swirled

and surrounded you in a 

variegated cocoon of true joy.

Family still surrounds, friends

still abound, some loves are 

lost, but new loves have been found.

One year ago you stood surrounded

by outer and inner scents of joys.

Today you hope to be as grateful

for the blessings you almost

didn't realize you had until

you nearly lost them.