Roma Victor!

I finally finished the thank you letters for all the presents my family received this Christmas. I sent them home, and this is what I received from my parents:

The "Thank You" letters were great,
We're just sorry they are so late.
Next year get your priorities in line,
And get them out in a reasonable time!

Just a little humor to lighten your day,
We appreciate you and your rhyming way.
And for taking on this enormous chore,
Now that it’s done, we’ll bug you no more.

Although there were complements enough throughout, I had to submit a rebuttal:

Most glad was I to receive your approval of my hard-spent time,
Much happier was I to receive said appreciation in rhyme.
My surprise, you can guess, was great upon reading your quatrains.
After all this time spent waiting, I’m puzzled as to why you refrained,
From writing these thank you notes in your own eloquent verse,
And sparing one child with a proclivity to delay, and what’s worse,
A heavy load of courses, with writings, calculations, and exams galore.
But rest easy, for come next year, I’ll undertake this challenge once more.

I thought both were rather ingenous compilations of wit and rhyme.