family.

I know I haven't been an easy child,
But love for you lies underneath my whims.
There is no way I could be tame or mild:
I need sometimes to shout and wave my limbs.
You're the wall I need to test my height,
The countervailing force to test my strength,
The chain I hammer at with all my might,
Even though you have increased its length.
To raise me, to just hit or miss.
To have to take turns at playing good cop and bad,
And give me grief before my goodnight kiss.
But love against the odds is stronger still.

most of the time.