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Christmas in Puerto Rico

written by: Natalia Aeschliman

@NataliaAeschlim

I close my eyes,

On this cold winter's night

Remembering the days of my youth

Taking me back to the warm nights

Of that island paradise

That I call home, even if I am far

Remembering the night

Our mother would take us outside

To collect grass

As we celebrated the 3 Kings day

I still remember the magic

The smile on our faces

As we picked grass to leave the camels

Those childhood days

When everything seemed possible

And never-ending

I still can taste my grandmother's cooking

I still can hear my grandfather's laughter

As she helped us put our toys together

I still remember the excitement

In my mother's eyes.

Oh if I could only go back

Just one more time

To those days of childhood delight

The coqui singing outside my window

The warm sand

The parrandas of the neighbors

The love that never ended

The time of coming together

And forgetting differences

Forgetting everything

Because we were all in that moment,

Those Christmas days

In paradise island

And there we remained frozen

Now I have little feet of my own

Tiptoeing through the night

Digging through the snow

Finding bits and pieces of grass,

Keeping that tradition alive,

Feliz Navidad

Feliz Dia de Reyes