A
great man with a loving wife
A great man with a loving wife,
bore five children with cherished joy.
To these children they gave their hearts,
and wrote a will to keep them safe through
stormy nights.
With love they wrote the will,
leaving the five children all their wealth,
and a single special blanket,
to keep them warm through the harsh bitter
bite of winter’s mouth.
Five children shared this one blanket,
on cold nights when the fierce winter’s
climate made the air too harsh to bear.
Underneath that blanket the children were at
peace,
until one of the children noticed how their
feet were cold,
tugging at the blanket they all began to pull
and tug,
until two left the soft warm embrace of the
blanket.
Alas they did not realize,
realize how with a close proximity to each
other,
they could all be warm and far from the knife
that winter wields.
All they needed was each other, and their
blanket.
Together warm and away from the heatless void
of a winters night.
For in that blanket, lay the love of their family,
the love and devotion symbolically woven into
the sentiment of the blanket.