Hopes and Fears

With forgotten force
Little boy feelings return
Each December
As the year looks to turn
Hopes resurface
Forgotten dreams recur
To play the imagination
Hoping to be hoped again
But hopes must be met
With courage & joy—
A lot to ask a little boy.
While hopes return
Fears never went
And grow best in the cold
Fears – those bullies bold
Must be met
With courage & joy—
A lot to ask a little boy.
December’s turn of years
All these hopes and fears
Erupt in a little boy
Who seeks courage & joy
In cloth
In straw
In a little town
Where the hopes
And the fears
Of years and years
Are met.