Candlelit Heart A Christmas Poem by Mary E. Linton

This morning in Facebook Memories, a post popped up that a dear friend who passed away in 2013 sent me as a Christmas greeting in 2009. It was this poem, and I thought I'd share it in memory of the all too many friends we've lost in recent years. - Love to all, Michele

Candlelit Heart

A Christmas Poem by Mary E. Linton

Somewhere across the winter world tonight

You will be hearing chimes that fill the air;

Christmas extends its all-enfolding light

Across the distance...something we can share.

You will be singing, just the same as I,

These familiar songs we know so well,

And you will see these same stars in your sky

And wish upon that brightest one that fell.

I shall remember you and trim my tree,

One shining star upon the topmost bough;

I will hang wreaths of faith that all may see --

Tonight I glimpse beyond the here and now.

And all the time that we must be apart

I keep a candle in my heart.