Christmas

By Joseph McGowan

Christmas is a time for happy memories
and this is what Christmas means to me
Christmas is a time to celebrate the gift of living
a time for sharing and a time for giving

It’s Christmas cards from friends in your past
for true friends are the ones who last
It’s a time for faith and a time for love
for the gift of Christmas is really a gift from above

Its sitting on Santa’s knee and whispering into his ear
telling him what you want and that you’ve been good all year
It’s stockings hung above fireplaces
and wide eyed children and smiling faces

It’s Christmas carols and candy canes
the sound of jingling bells as Santa pulls on his sleigh’s reigns
and as Santa’s sleigh lifts off of your roof and into the night
If you listen carefully ,you can hear him say,
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night

Its shiny lights decorating every house on the street
where friends and family will come to meet
It’s suprised faces on Christmas morn
amid toys and presents and wrapping paper torn

It’s Christmas dinner with family and friends
A tradition I hope never ends
And as I put the last decoration on the tree
I think to myself, that is what Christmas means to me.