My Winter Poem

On Christmas

Deep within the entity of Christmas

Within the wintry jingles

And the cartoon specials,

Within the bright lights

And crushed expectations on Christmas morning,

Within the commercialization

And the jolly red goliath created to crush the common man

Within all this,

Lies the spirit

Of what Christmas really is,

The warmth of togetherness

and the love that shines through,

Which all the materialism in the world

Cannot hope to vanquish