Nostalgic Christmas

*When I was a little boy*  *Christmas had but one meaning*  *A time for fun and frolic*  *Just as it was in the beginning*  New clothes and toys abound  As Canaan overflowed with milk and honey  The aura of joy so overwhelming  Even if there was little money  **The sounds of Bony M's classic**  **Pervaded one with an evoking nostalgia**  **Even though I wasn't born in the 70's**  **It worked better than anaesthesia** The fun of eating the chicken's head Made it more enticing  The presence of rice and stew very plenty  Made it more inviting **A communal trip to the village**  **Was to us a sacred tradition**  **With cousins,uncles and relatives in convoy**  **We made our humble expedition**   **We arrive to a joyful raucous welcome**  **Which spoke volumes of the joy in their hearts** **An evidence of "distance makes the heart grow fonder "** **A saying that depicts the essence of arts** *Tales by moonlight at night*  *Had become more live than a TV programme*  *As we surrounded Aribobo,the storyteller*  *To hear the tortoise cut meat from the cow's bombom* **How I long to go back to that Christmas**  **To have that heart so naive and free**  **Climbing the hills of Iyiakwu stream**  **Will forever be a nostalgic spree.** ***#ChristmasIsSweet***  ***#AmComingHome*** ***#MichaeloLovesChristmas*** Lead image Source https://cdn.pixabay.com/photo/2017/02/05/05/16/pretty-girl-2039176_1280.jpg