A Chance With My Snowman

If you chance to see
a wandering snowman
on your way home tonight
Let me know.
The poinsettias have started to wilt, turning dull
The Christmas lights have flickered low into the night
The food has lost its savor
Gifts have been opened
Blurry are my windows now
As snow continues to hide
My precious snowman from plain site.

If you chance to meet
My wandering snowman
On your way home tonight
Stop for a moment and play with him.
Share a candy. Make him smile
Make him a paper airplane. Make him beam and laugh.
Hug and kiss him for me. Warm his heart.
It's all a lost mother would ask
For Christmas.

If you chance to experience
My wandering snowman
On your way home tonight
Please send him home
to a warm Christmas with me.
It's all that I ask.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2013

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Tacito Avatar
December 22, 2013 at 9:43 AM
There are loads of layered emotions here. "Snowman", perhaps, being a man frozen in his emotions and then some...or, perhaps, something more. Excellent lines. Very touching.
Lamoureux Avatar
December 22, 2013 at 9:13 AM
Interesting, before reading Monterey's comment the first word that came to mind is lovely.
Sirak Avatar
December 22, 2013 at 7:28 AM
This is a lovely poem. I love the image of the snowman wandering lost in the snow.
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