i close my eyes
and i see you and i
sharing mugs of hot chocolate and red wine
whipped cream kisses
whispering and giggling
as we wrap presents for our children
sleeping soundly in their beds
we scrawl “love mommy” on cards
and santa’s name on wrapping paper
it’s late
we know we’ll be woken up
in just a few hours
and we know
we’ll need a pot of coffee each
before we can even consider the day beginning
but we’ll barely be able to pour ourselves a cup
before the babies are pulling us by our pjs
begging us to let the open presents
but we don’t care
because we’ll be happy
we’ll be in love
we’ll be together
ghosts of christmas future
(cc, 2016)