December Date
The afternoon is royal blue,
with tiny lights festooned,
I rush, I’m flushed, I look for you —
we never meet too soon!
The windows decked with evergreen,
with tinsel and with gold —
and there, my angel, genuine,
a candle in the cold!
Christina Egan © 2015
Photograph by Gabriel Pollard [CC BY-SA 2.5].
Featured picture on Wikimedia Commons.