December Lights

I remember one
Christmas long ago

when I was child not
more than 4 years old

father scream and
shouting at night

mother would hide in
corner

scare for her life

 

I just about remember
packing our things

some things go left
behind

and we had to go and
hide

 

days went into months

but to me I never saw

my mother tears

but at night

I could hear her cry

and I wonder why

 

souls with no home

people help

but we were on our own

no family near

we had to rely on the
kindness of strangers

one year the salvation
army came gave me a teddy bear

and I love that bear
with all my heart

 

it was a cold December

when my mother said

we getting new home

she said your father
won't be coming back

sweet heart

 

and as she said those
words

there were tears in her
eyes

and we both cry

 

we walk pass the house

next door had

pretty lights in the
garden

people around seeing
the snow man and deer

it's wonderfully to see

yes through a child
eyes the wonder of the lights

so magical

 

 

we move in not much
money we had

but we had love

the day we move in

I felt such joy

my own room

a safe

warm home

and on Christmas day

its began to snow

on that first Christmas
in our new home

my mother gave me a
snow globe that

play a Christmas tune

and as it play I felt
safe inside

 

 

in our safe home we
hear laugher and full of joy

a echo of happy home

and when its December

I remember

the first day we saw
the lights

mother looks tried

but now we rest in
eachother arms

 

I look out the window

and he snow falling
hard

and I remember that
December

when I did not know
what to say or do

there hope in this
world I know

there good people out
there

there my saving grace

bless them

 

and the light are still
there in the December sky

and I play the snow
glob that I got that first Christmas by the warm fire side

now we have a happy
life