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Stephanie Galve Poem
He comes again this year
With him my buried relatives
I welcome them with warm feelings
All day everyday for a month or more
Uncertain confusing it will be pretty bemusing
I see it everyday now
Video Game Consoles
Dress ups for parties
Christmas amusement parks
first love
Easily calling today
Nostalgia gnawing
Im choked up in tears
Non stop cold rain
On top of the Christmas weather
My Papa's love
Enveloping me
Santa making it cheery
Lola and lolo visiting
Daddy and Mommy chiming in
Youd think it would be a boy
I thought it could have been him
Cruelly mistaken
Can never shake this feeling
Dead family never lost but painful so it seems
Noche Buena on the 24th
Media Noche on New Year
Parol lit all month
Simbang gabi
All hope and peace
Without these we are lost
We must need these
It comes every year
Dousing it wont work
We must need it because we live through it
But then wait, for sweetness
I hold dear to the living
Only solution to shake gloom away
More resplendent than sleeping it off with kerosene
I know that now, sobered, I see it much better
Copyright © Stephanie Galve | Year Posted 2015
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Stephanie Galve Poem
Dearest sol
Father of all
Greatest love of our mother
Grieving heart so somber
Our children are suffering
Extreme cold so crippling
Extend your reach
Your elemental hands should so breach.
Reach out for them as they clamor
To breath the air of your light
Beautiful sun, life giving wonder
King of all beings, you are our Father.
The light after the night so dark
The guide that points to rest
The source of fire igniting essence
The calm in cold and dire.
Strongest of all above
Powerful in your every rise
Omnipotent and innumerable are your works
Bold to become, to fulfill, to behold.
We live to wait for you to direct us
Each sign of your word enlightens us
We stand our ground as our mother told us
Sleeping under your eyes and waking to the dark.
We live it out till you come back with your heat
Come the hour of rest we are bestowed with such zest
Your soldiers with us look after us in the dark
And we praise you for your protection.
You lift us out of all digressions
You take good care of us with no limitations
Ours is a life fulfilled by your affections
Praise you almighty one
On days on end without your light
We fight the dark in fear of such vehemence
The red sparks that threatens our black sky.
Your arms envelop it and disperse it away from us
Bless you one who gives us life
Our hands stretches out daily for your fire
Bringer of heat after a day in the mist
Copyright © Stephanie Galve | Year Posted 2022
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