so much depends on
remembering
a handheld red transistor radio
given with love,
from brother to sister,
one Christmas
long ago.
so much depends on
remembering
a handheld red transistor radio
given with love, simply,
selflessly,
one meager Christmas
long ago.
so much depends on
remembering
a handheld red transistor
radio, given with love, playing
still
in heart and mind
this Christmas,
as it did
one distant Christmas
long ago.
so much depends on
remembering
a handheld red transistor radio,
given with love,
when we were young,
and unaware of what would come,
years after we shared
that special Christmas so very,
very, long ago.
