CHRISTMAS EVE

Christmas Eve: Your flattering toast
to the moments to troubled lives;
with you the past resurrect
nights when we were sincere when we prayed.

They also resurrect our first
years with their enchanted visions;
the child-God, brother of the fairies,
the wise men, the manger and the lambs.

Much of the faded and lost
in the mists of time and oblivion,
your evocative magic brings us back.

Warmth of home the heart fills us,
plus happiness, pure and serene,
if everyone is in it, that one does not come back.