Holiday memories wrapped with love <br />Small gifts from God sent from above <br />With laughter and smiles, sprinkled with joy <br />A doll for the girls and a truck for the boys <br />Though this year memories won't be so bright <br />Without my family within my sight <br />Yet somehow I will find the will to go on <br />Though their faces won't be there come Christmas dawn <br />So often I sit at my tree, blue and white <br />And think of all those cold Christmas nights <br />Where my cousin and I would whisper and pray <br />That maybe that Christmas we'd see Santa's sleigh <br />The dinners, so great with turkey and dressing <br />And, uncle Mike would lead the blessing <br />Ah, but now those days are no longer here <br />I won't be able to hold those I hold so dear <br />So, I will quietly sit here at my tree and ponder <br />Of past holiday memories and past holiday wonder <br /> <br />((December 13th,2000))<br /><br />Danny Speicher<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/holiday-memories-2/
