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The family poem 'Riches' takes us to an ideal world of family life. The nostalgia of ideal family living, portrayed in this poem, tells us about the blessing that family love and bonding is. The person who has a good relationship with most of his family members should consider himself extremely lucky. There cannot be a person richer than the one who receives full support and love from his family. In the poem, Jeanne D Rhein has fallen in the beautiful memories of her family life, what it used to be. She admits that though her parents did not have much money, they were always the richest family in the world, as there was a lot of love amongst the family members.
Riches
They say that times were tough then
That money was very tight
But I remember my childhood
And I know that can't be right
Mom would cook our dinner
Dad came home at five
We were all sitting at the table
Waiting for him to arrive
We wouldn't eat from a microwave
Or restaurants down the street
We all ate Mom's home cooking
And boy that can't be beat
We didn't eat in front of the TV
Or with a phone in our hand
We weren't plugged into a stereo
Bopping to the latest band
We would all sit at the table
Everyone in their place
There were never any surprises
We recognized every face
Brothers to the left of me
Sisters to the right
That's the way we ate dinner
Every single night
We laughed we joked we talked we ate
We were a family don't you see
Though some may have been raised poor
You can see it wasn't me
We ate collards we ate biscuits
We ate fatback and blackeyed peas
We said yes sir we said no sir
We said thank you ma'am and please
So when you talk of family life
Or how it used to be
Though many had more money
None were as rich as me
