POEM: Make their dreams come true

Wake up my Brothers and wake up the dreams

of cookies and candies and chocolate creams

Of children with lots of good things to eat

with dolls and yo-yos and drums to beat

With clothes that are warm and shoes watertight

and Christmas trees that are sparkling bright

With baseballs and bats and little tin hats

and oranges and apples and turkeys so fat

Be generous my Brothers and spread Christmas joy

with a little food, a smile and a toy

Be generous my Brothers leave a dollar on the drum

for this way again you will not come

The chance to help a child may slip away

and God may not find you on Judgment Day.

GEORGE HELMS

Coeur d’Alene