As I drive down the street, there is an uncomfortable scenario
Unfolding before me, staring right down my face…
I looked at it and wonder why this, why now?

Then it hits me like a brick wall in the face
It’s almost Christmas, hence the traffic jam
That seems to plague me every where I turn as I drove.

Where are all this people going?
They are going about doing their Christmas shopping of course
Shopping… hmm Shopping for what?
Shopping for Christmas gifts for their loved ones…

For their loved ones, really?
Hmm…that is strange, cause the closer I observed them
The more stressed laden emotion I sensed from them…
If they are really shopping for gifts for their loved ones….
Why are they not doing the shopping with much love and joy.

I suspect there is something amiss here…
Ha, now I think I’m beginning to get it!
The joy of Christmas is gradually being suffocated
Under the weight of commercialism….

This commercialism induces a warped view of Christmas
Once Christmas lost its essence
Then the joy is gone
It’s almost Christmas
But, were is the joy?

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The white powdery stuff drizzled down slowly and softly
Touching the ground with no sound or disturbance
But quietly nestled together as they create a breath taking sight
Oh beauty and majestic covering for the earth surface.

This is the first snow fall for this winter…
As I looked, a glimpse of how it use to feel  glides by
My consciousness gradually recalls those wonder feelings
I remembered the sense of wonder…
The awesome sublime feeling evoked by those white fluffy snow.

As we grow older our capacity for wonder tends to diminish
Time, life or something I can’t quite pinpoint…
Seems to steal from us the ability to thoroughly enjoy
The simple wonders life presents us with every day…
Moment by moment we miss the wonder…
The awesomeness, the beauty…

Ah… I was there again…
This first snow somehow melted past my crusted mind
It is magical and full of refreshment…
But I can feel it gradually fads away like a mirage…
A feeling I had, but it’s slipping away…
I thought I had it…

Maybe, just maybe it would resurface again…
Maybe I’m the one drifting away…
Maybe I’m trying too hard…
The moment, ha the moment of the first snow…
I must rest now and relish the wonders…
This first snow brings along…
Ah… how sublime…

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