This Christmas

As a gift for my family this Christmas, I wrote a poem. I started writing from my own heart and ended, I believe, writing from God's. I love you family!!!

This Christmas

I breathe you in and hold you there

Effusive warmth and effervescent mirth

My eyes brim with crystals

When you dance through my mind

We clasp hands, link arms at the elbow

Place palms at the small of our backs

I lift you up as you hold me aloft

With whispered shouts of supplication

If love can with words be painted

I seek to dip my pen daily in crimson

So you will know that I see you, feel you from miles away.

This heart string strung between these nine beating hearts

Plucked by the hand of God, fingers singing every note

A harmony birthed from the gossamer realm

The refrain returns to earth ever repeating

This family is mine.