'Twas the Night Before Christmas 2005 in Southeast Texas

[southerngale]

The Night Before Christmas 2005

’Tis the night before Christmas, and all through the town
Debris of all kind is stacked up in a mound.
Houses are beat up, trees are not there,
The landscape is different and curiously bare.

Fences are gone and the dogs have got out.
Insurance agents are nowhere about.
Mold, in its grandeur, is lining the walls
Inside of the cabinets and all through the halls.

Moms are exhausted and daddies are spent.
They're paying their house notes and now paying rent.
FEMA is long gone, the Red Cross has split
Searching for new towns that disasters have hit.

The children are restless as they lay in their beds
With worries and troubled thoughts filling their heads.
Can Santa find them, amid all the rubble,
Or will he think, “it's just not worth the trouble”?

Then out of the night comes the sound of small hoofs
Prancing and pawing atop the blue roofs!
Though Santa's landmarks were not where they'd been,
The shine of the trailer lights guided him in.

He managed somehow to deliver the toys
To all the deserving, good girls and boys.
And they heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight
"It will take more than Rita to mess up this night!"

[arkess7]

Thats a good one!!!!!! Very creative!!!!!!! I wish all the hurricane victimes of this past season a very Merry Christmas!!!!!

As a matter of fact I am going to go through my daughters toys today or tomorrow and donate them to kids who really need them this holiday season..

[southerngale]

Merry Christmas to you too! I've been blessed by people giving to me. I've also given what I could. It feels good to give something you know someone needs or will enjoy.

[MSRobi911]

Merry Christmas to you too Frack!!!!


Our towns sound so alike

Mary

[beachbum_al]

I love that one...especially the end.

[f5]

how about a repeat of last year snowfall to help to relieve some pain