Making New Friends

Jack is out for a walk…

My gosh, I'm living in and I'm a member Of a family. I never dreamt That this could ever be. I'm right away A brother and a son; I have four sisters, Just like that, a father and a mother, Too. How can this happen overnight?

One day I am a double orphan foundling, A nothing Jack from nowhere, knowing not A soul, and here I am the next day, accepted As a brother and a son, and holding My own place within the bosom of A warm and loving family. If anyone Had told me this might happen I would surely Just have laughed out loud and passed it off As being plain impossible. But -
Here I am; and now I must take care to be The sort of brother son who will fulfill The expectations held of me by all My newfound kin, my brothers and my sisters And most of all my father and my mother.

But I remember, when I first met Ietje, She had a problem with my faith; she was not Pleased that I am Catholic. Her parents too, Have made remarks which indicate That Roman Catholic is not the thing to be.

They surely are not Buddhist; they must Be Protestant of some denomination.

And Jim, he was not happy with the notion That I might be a Roman Catholic priest.

I'll have to ask the father, how this could be So critical an issue; what is implied For me as member of this family.