Turn Off the Lights

Let the Christmas carols play solemn and prayerful just one more day. The season's prep was all hype and now the holiday slips quiet into night. For weeks ahead the songs were sung and in a single day seem easily undone. Already the decorations hang and fall packed away like the New Year's ball. Take down the tree, the ornaments and cards hold back the disappointed left over shards. Turn off the lights, discard the holiday themes box the figures from the manger scene, leave only the blessed angelic message joy, hope, love and peace the everlasting vestige.