POEM - Groundhog’s Day is for Families

What does it mean

That so many things

Happened on the same day?

Did they plan this?

The biggest holiday of the year

Involving rodents

And weather predictions

That also inspired a movie

Had to share

Because the big game

Had to be played as well

The one with leather spheroids

That get kicked and thrown

And carried about a grass field

In violent orchestrations

By groups of padded millionaires

While somewhere in New York

A billion stories continued

And one famous story

Amidst a swirl of mystery

Came to a tragic end

All the while in my house

With my children close at hand

We watched all of these things happen

At a safe distance

Snuggled together

I finally had

A whole day at home

All present and accounted for

Within arm’s reach