The Christmas Story
All around the planet,
This morning's story is identical and epochal.
It's about the glories of children
Waking to the gifts of wonderment
And about the warmth of families gathering in gladness,
To celebrate the subtler gifts of love, tenderness, and peace
Attending the miracled birth of a child
Destined to outlive his evanescent death in life,
With the majesty of eternal life in death —
Christmas,
The story whose beginning has no end.
12/25/10
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