Images Of Christmas Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Reaching into the past, searching memory banks for
times now gone, of childhood images of Christmas
in New Jersey, filled with snow and beauty of it's
stillness, sparkling in my mind.

Grandparents standing with lights of happiness in
their eyes, as they watched our joy when opening
their presents.

Filled with images of Christmas dinner with our
Italian family gathered closely together physically
and spiritually, always going to Mass to thank God
first.

Beautiful memories remembered so closely to my heart
that they will never be let go or forgotten as long
as I'm alive and thinking.