Christmas?
Was your Christmas Tree delivered,
were your gifts custom wrapped -
after ordering from the catalogs,
your credit cards are packed.
Were your Christmas parties catered?
Your calendar's been so full -
yet you somehow still feel empty,
your heart feels a strangely familiar pull...
Was your carpet commercially cleaned
for your elite and aloof guest list
as you readied for entertaining of
only the most brilliant and best...
When, during all your meticulous plans
did you finally have the realization
that perhaps you'd left out someone:
The Son of All Creation...
Was your heart so empty and so callused
that you truly had forgotten
this Season's truest celebration:
the Babe of God begotten!
Why, now, don't you put aside the time
for just a small and simple prayer
Yes, your Angels are hovering near -
they never forgot your being there...
KECline / 12-96
(Ok, it may seem a little strange that a pagan has a Christmas poem. But I was a Christian for many years, and believe still in miracles & Angels... Besides, this is still part of me, this poem, as it was from my heart at the time it was written...)