The Wind Up Music Poem by Susan Lacovara

The shops are prematurely saturating the air
With happy holiday music and bells
Making my silly heart swell
Remembering when love was real
Was new
And I had reason to roam
The tinseled Christmas town
Seeking out silver and gold

I knew no cold
And tasted falling snowflakes
Bundled against the bitter breeze
By your blanketing words of whimsy and warmth
Winter looked wide eyed wonderful then

Only now do I remember the frosting that followed

Like that perfect scene
Captured and held hostage in a snow globe
Never ever changing
Always just a beautiful
Time after time
No matter how hard or how often it was shaken
The Christmas cottage remained the same
It's lovely landscape intact
Merry and magically bright

I bought myself my own Christmas gift
Albeit well in advance
And against the good advice of my purse strings
A single silver snowflake
In a snow globe shiny new
Flecks of white and gold glitter
Floating dancing in the water

It's note by note song to keep me company
On my very own silent night