Christmas Choice

What more would I like for Christmas?

     Quite carelessly you ask;

This picking out of presents

     Is something of a task.

There is so much of beauty,

     So many wondrous things;

Yet round one simple picture

     My fondest mem’ry clings.

My answer e’er is ready,

     Of all the joys I know

I’d rather have her presence

     Beneath the mistletoe.

Sept. 29, ‘08