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# The Spirit of Christmas
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/the-spirit-of-christmas/
- Published: 2021-12-25T17:37:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-15T05:03:02.000Z
- Description: It's all too much, the floor strewn with gifts we couldn't possibly deserve. But our son is happy, going from toy to toy, and so are we, smiling along with him as he plays with the train, the trucks, the scooter.
- Author: Andy
- Tags: Be The Change, poetry, #Migrated-1784090317409, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-15 04:39

It's all too much, the floor strewn with gifts  
we couldn't possibly deserve. But our son  
is happy, going from toy to toy, and so  
are we, smiling along with him as he plays  
with the train, the trucks, the scooter.

Tonight our son will sleep fitfully, dreaming  
what gifts tomorrow will bring. Exhausted,  
we'll gather up the trash, question what  
can be recycled and what cannot, wonder  
how long until these toys too turn to trash,  
until we run out of things to make us happy.