Mine eyes have seen the Christmas of the many years before <br />The children lay asleep in bed, the presents on the floor <br />The tree decorated with its many twinkling lights <br />The snow that slowly falls outside like Angel dust at night <br /> <br />The wind outside is calm upon this holy night <br />As I light one candle for a star that once shined bright <br />The children as they sleep, they dream of Santa’s sleigh <br />They vision all his Reindeer, they see him on his way <br /> <br />I think about the world and how it has come to be <br />The soldier that’s not coming home, the broken families <br />I think about the child somewhere that tonight no food to eat <br />The gift of life a soul tonight fights desperately to keep <br /> <br />I think about the Christmases that have all come and gone <br />And how somewhere the tears will fall, someone cries alone <br />I think about the love in this world that needs to be <br />And as I say a silent prayer, one candle comforts me <br /> <br />I wish somehow that if life it could allow me more to give <br />So that love within this world somehow could flourish and could live <br />But I am but the soul of one whose children sleep tonight <br />While the Angels decorate in snow the earth just outside <br /> <br />And as my children wake up and they laugh and they play <br />I hope for you love it comes too, for you it too awakes <br />And as I sit this Christmas eve tonight this holy night <br />Know you world and all my love from beneath one candle light.<br /><br />Bill Simmons<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/christmas-eve-candlelight/
