Often get to shop with them,
So it was a treat to tagalong to
The grocery store.
As we were checking out, I
Bragged to the cashier.
"These are my really special grandkids!"
"They don't look like it," she said.
"Where are they from?"
Smiling at my two grand teenagers, I said,
"One from China and one from Russia."
"Oh, I see why they're special," she added.
The clerk's vision was limited.
She just saw our faces,
But if she could have peered into our
Hearts she would have recognized that
The three of us are woven inseparably together,
Permanently linked, not by blood,
But love.