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The Christmas Tree

Elaine Froese

Glowing lights
Fresh pine
Tall tall tree
Thin
Like Dad.
He chooses it.
Feels sorry for the last on the lot.
Not unlike the lost ones
Who knock at his door for help.
Gas money. A tow. The phone.
Bethlehem strangers knocked, too.
Lost, just for a moment.
Each Christmas their small figures
    grace the manger scene.
Light illumines the Child.
Christmas is Him.
He seeks the lost and the lonely.
He’d like my Dad’s tree.


Elaine Froese is a member of Boissevain (Man.) MB Church.

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Last modified December 6, 2000.

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