TEXAS: Walker County, Huntsville: Elkins Lake: Christmas Vignette "Many Miles of Mistletoe"

Many Miles of Mistletoe....

                                                                 Reflections on Christmas morn

Many miles of mistletoe

linking open wounds and happy reunions

      mortality mirrors fathomless depths

of hungry souls, longing for absolution

Thanks be to Reason--

                to sharing unhampered by vanity

                       to redefining sacrifice 

                                      to breaking simple bread together

No roasted suckling pigs with lifeless jowls dripping with sweet nectar,

                 but a simple meal with a timeless theme

love, acceptance and charity

                    at times interrupted by

                                      uncomfortable laughter  ....whirling in the winds of decided coincidence

 while taking a stroll on common ground

                 in a place where tokens are not accepted

                                      a place where as if dutifully,

                                                                               wisps of tangled words swirl about 

                              yet land safely -- miraculously with their original intent

Many miles of mistletoe

                 opening hearts and dressing wounds

Happy reunions...and reunions missed

but sending warm thoughts, laughter and memories of Christmas together

                                                                                            ............through many miles of mistletoe.