My Christmas Wish List

As we near to Christmas, I'm sitting down to
write,

and making out my wish list, while there is
still some light.

I've thought about this long and hard for all
of you to see,

because the things i want the most can't fit
beneath a tree.

Though some may think the list to long and
impossible to do,

I guarantee it can be done, if you see it
through.

It will not cost you anything that you can
not afford,

but the joy that it will bring is worth the
cost and more.

The first thing on my wish list is for the
world to see

that love begins within one's heart. There is
no cost it's free.

For each to give of their self to another
soul,

so no one will be lonely in this world
anymore.

The second thing I'm asking for is to share
your extra food

with someone that is hungry, so they can be
full, too.

Not just once, but every time you see that
need arise,

so no one feels the hunger pains when they
sleep at night.

The third thing that I'd like to see is peace
to start to flow.

For it is something to be shared with
everyone you know.

A simple step, decide today that anger won't
abide.

Peace builds up, but hate destroys, and is
started first by pride.

The fourth, and last I'm asking for, is now
to just forgive

anyone that's done you wrong, no matter what
they did.

I know it's hard for some to, do but pain
will soon depart.

People change and walls break down when given
from the heart.

If you want to change the world it must start
within.

It's not about the things we have and hold
within our hands.

We knew these things when we were young, but
time seems to forget.

To start with love within our hearts, there
is no greater gift.

( Remember the most important things in life

are not what we hold in our hands, but what
we hold in our hearts.)

By John T Wright