A Christmas Friend

I created this poem as a Christmas present to my life-long best friend, my cousin, Linda.

 

 

A Christmas Friend

 

 

            The stars twinkled brightly, that cold clear night, shining down on a soft blanket of shimmering white.

 

            A little girl lay sleeping some distance away, having arrived in this world on a long ago spring day.

 

            The little girl was lonely, with no one down here to play �" her sisters in Heaven for a while had yet to stay.

 

            As babies do, the little girl dreamed and began to pray,

 

“Lord, I’m lonely, and I know I’m down here to stay; but it’s awfully hard without someone with which to play.  My sisters still sleep in Your Heavenly nursery - don’t You have someone else down here to keep me company?  Another little girl, very like me �" could you send her down to my godparents’ family?”

 

            The stars twinkled brighter and snow feathers filled the air �" two days before Christmas, God answered the little girl’s prayer

 

�" He sent me Linda, my cousin and dearest life-long friend.

 

 

© 2008 Unpublished Donna M. Jitchotvisut

Author's Note

My usual writing genre is the narrative. I wrote this poem, "A Christmas Friend," as a Christmas gift for my life-long best friend and cousin.