Christmas

Christmas

All the magic.

All the mystery,

All the yearning

Is captured

In the sounds

Of We Three Kings,

The First Noel,

The Little Drummer Boy,

The Twelve Days of Christmas,

Chestnuts Roasting on and Open Fire,

The infinite variety of human desire

Resurrected in their strains

For a hoped-for world of peace and joy

And brotherhood/sisterhood,

For the long sought answer

To who we are and how we came to be

And what purpose we have under the heavens,

For all the soul searching

Of all the songs

That every Christmas

Remind me

Of the wonder of living

In search of the Fountain of Youth,

El Dorado,

Ali Baba’s Cave,

The Golden Rule,

The quest for the unreachable star!

JM