“A Christmas Memory From Long Ago” copyright 2008 John J. Rigo, upcoming “Passion Amidst Apathy”

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This poem comes from a true story in my life…..I think it is timeless in its message.   The lesson is that when two people share love, as I and my childhood bride did then, it truly was all the processions we needed.  

 

 

It was our first Christmas together.

We both were eighteen

with barely more

than the clothes on our backs.

 

I was just out of basic training

in the U.S. Air Force.

She had just graduated from high school

and then wrote a bus to Savannah, Georgia,

to join me

the love of her life.

 

We had rented a several room apartment

on the second floor of an old Savannah home.

It was in a falling-down condition.

 

The gifts we shared were inexpensive

but meant the world in their value

and meaning to each of us.

 

She gave me a St. Christopher‘s medal of Silver

while I gave her a Catholic missal.

She wanted to become a Catholic like me

prior to us getting married.

 

I took a picture of her opening her present.

The smile upon her face was beautiful.

It was a Christmas in 1960.

 

It will always be a Christmas

I will always remember.

The lesson I learned

that day was

the love between us

was truly

the greatest gift

we could have shared

that Christmas. 

 

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“A Christmas Memory From Long Ago” copyright 2008 John J. Rigo, upcoming “Passion Amidst Apathy”

Courtesy of free-christmas-deskstop-wallpaper.blogspot.com

 

 

 

This poem comes from a true story in my life…..I think it is timeless in its message.   The lesson is that when two people share love, as I and my childhood bride did then, it truly was all the processions we needed.  

 

 

It was our first Christmas together.

We both were eighteen

with barely more

than the clothes on our backs.

 

I was just out of basic training

in the U.S. Air Force.

She had just graduated from high school

and then wrote a bus to Savannah, Georgia,

to join me

the love of her life.

 

We had rented a several room apartment

on the second floor of an old Savannah home.

It was in a falling-down condition.

 

The gifts we shared were inexpensive

but meant the world in their value

and meaning to each of us.

 

She gave me a St. Christopher’s medal of Silver

while I gave her a Catholic missal.

She wanted to become a Catholic like me

prior to us getting married.

 

I took a picture of her opening her present.

The smile upon her face was beautiful.

It was a Christmas in 1960.

 

It will always be a Christmas

I will always remember.

The lesson I learned

that day was

the love between us

was truly

the greatest gift

we could have shared

that Christmas. 

 

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