Christmas Eve

Peppermint snowflakes

fall onto holy stables,

Candles remember.

Reindeer fly above.

Kris Kringle sits on the coach

and shouts to the stars.

Merry Christmas to

all and to all a goodnight!

Children dream of gifts

awaiting next morn

strewn under the Christmas tree

wrapped in paper.

But what brings us here,

together with merry cheer

is not gifts or deer.

We are here for love.