The Christmas Gathering
Cold winter season
The Day approaches quickly
A Day of wonder
Family gathers
Around festive winter fires
Looking into eyes
Memories forming
In the minds of the children
Parents remember
Festive green and red
Marking the Christmas season
Candles at midnight
The lights are put out
Flames no longer flickering
Silence takes over
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Morning approaches
Feet scurry quickly downstairs
Presents are unwrapped
Paper swirls, flying
Ripped into multiple shreds
Covering the floor
Noise awakens all
Parents were sleeping soundly
Now no more, chaos
Smiles on their faces
Knowing how much it pleases
Success! One more year
Growing up quickly
Soon they will become mature
And pass this day on
Morning soon concludes
All gifts are fully unwrapped
Joyous sounds aloft
When all is finished
A great cleanup will proceed
All hands are needed.
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Afternoon slumber
The house is quiet again
All eyes become closed
Anticipation
Vanishing, lost to the known
All things now revealed
A family meal
Dishes cover the table
Appetites sated
Sitting by the fire
Orange, red, and yellow flames
Leap up from the logs
The end of the Day
Festivities concluded
Christmas is finished.