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I Remember Christmas
Dec 18, 2006


I remember Christmas as a young girl
When all I ever wanted
Was the dollie in the run down store
Next to Macey’s window glamour.
She had matted hair,
Only one eye and a  torn dress.
Mama had consumption
And Poppa died back in the war.
I never got that dollie
Tho’ Mama said she’d try
But I passed away on Christmas Eve
And became a preacher man.

I remember Christmas as  a padre,
Bible tucked under my arm;
A tiny wooden cross hung around my neck
And a phial of holy tincture
Under my smock.
I prayed with the living
I prayed for the dying
As the bullets and bombs
Raged all  around. All
I ever wanted was peace on Christmas Day
But I passed away on Christmas Eve
And became a miner’s mule.

I remember Christmas, I was working,
My job was to pull the coal trucks
Three hundred feet underground.
That’s when I first met my father
Who tended and fed us.
With lungs full of dust
And eyes blanketed in black,
I plodded on, down the tunnels
And back again,
Hauling black gold to warm the world.
All I ever wanted for Christmas
Was to breathe real air
In some flowered pasture above
But I passed away on Christmas Eve
And became a starving desert child.

I remember Christmas as my family and I
Prayed for rain
To raise our crops, that we
Might eat to ease our
Distended tums. And I prayed
For my brothers and sisters
Of the Earth. That the world
Never have to suffer as I have,
As I did. I would wish more at Christmas
Because they told me
That was when dreams came true
But I passed away on Christmas Eve
And became a swaddled babe.

I remember Christmas as a babe
In swaddling, men travelled
From afar and brought gifts to bestow
Upon me, to a lowly stable below a bright star,
Where animals lay before me
And angels sang in harmony
And the world rejoiced in my name,
And on Christmas Eve?

That’s when
I am that young girl.
I am that padre.
I am that mule.
I am that desert child.
I am that babe.
I am one and I am all,
Not just for Christmas,
But everyday….
© tcmoon 2006-12-11 aka RonM
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Posted: Monday December 18, 2006, 7:13 pm
Tags: christmas desert jesus hunger [add/edit tags]

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