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Day Five: "With Open Arms" a poem by Amber Watson




With Open Arms

Holidays are a rather odd time of year.

Most people are used to seeing boxes and boxes, wrapped with silver and blue bows,


Walking into open arms.

The lights, the joy


The idea of spending time with family sounds delightful,


But what about all of the people

Who don’t have that definition of home.


While you’re shopping in November someone else might be preparing for December.


One family might be eating boxed Mac n cheese

Rather than homemade mashed potatoes.


For some people Christmas is just another time of year

As it’s become so commercialized, so expensive.


While you count down from ten on New Years


Someone else might be counting five things they can see

Four things they can touch Three things they can hear Two things to touch And one thing to read

I think it’s important to keep your arms open to everyone this Christmas.

-Amber Watson, sophomore

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