Learning to love again.

I know I have lied,
I know I have loved,
You've held me when I've cried,
I know what I have done.

I look at this family and I wonder why.
Should I have lived or should I have died?
This family I see is truly not mine.
Mine is broken and torn with hate.
This family is filled with love and fate.

You have taught me many things.
Above all I have learned to love.
You have made me feel safe.
Like under the wings of a dove.
You have given me this and I am grateful.
What can I give in return to show I am thankful?

I'd swallow the ocean for each one of you.
This is impossible to do,
So instead I give you this.
This poem to me is greater,
Even greater then a hug or a kiss.
What I am trying to say is that I love you.
I am thankful for how you have treated so happily
It is far greater then what anyone has done for me.