Slowly, slowly over the past week,
decorations have been taken down,
stacked haphazardly awaiting proper packing ~ a long good night til next Christmas; breakables in separate boxes.
pretty Christmas balls in cellophane tubes; books on the bottom shelves of book cases; embroidered linens folded and put away; lights unplugged, wedged into aging boxes; Christmas tree taken apart, stowed in a box.
Christmas music faded in the distance
but my living room returns!
a bitter sweet return because
all the magic of Christmas is a joy
welcomed in my home again next year.
“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it -
You feel it. You know it. You believe it.”
~ Kevin Alan Milne
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