This is Christmas to me: Part II by Michael AK 2008

Time to live again
A life recent, past and distant
Immortalized in my memories
A father’s love
Unyielding to hardship
Or to scorn of a neighbor
An eagle by night and
A bee by the day
Watched and guarded and led the family
Always began his day with a great prayer
Dear Lord: What can you not do?
As you can suspend the Earth in heavens
Without visible pillars
Help it move freely through the stars
As you can put the stars in their places
Shine according to your orders
As you can separate day and night
As you have given us two lights
The sun to warm us, and
The moon to guide us by the night
You my Lord
You can bless my children
Make them kind, as you are kind to them
Pained and scarred by life
His face filled with swollen veins and wrinkles
It is a joy to see him, on Christmas day
When his smiles and happiness
Surface on his beautiful face
Time to live again
A life recent, past and distant
Immortalized in my memories
Christmas eve
From horizon to horizon
The hills and the valleys
Filled with the sound of the time
Church bells and
The songs of the season
The faithful patiently waiting
For the arrival of the baby
Young boys singing
Around a huge bonfire
Genna Game the next day
This is Christmas to me
To live and to tell these stories
Resting on time chair
Built from the confluence of
The past and the present
This is my narrative of the future that
You and I are just
A small sheaf of this universe
The meaning of you and I that
We are just reflections,
Of the people who love us