"What I Want for Christmas" by McKell Porter

December 5, 2014

Dear Family and Friends,

Once again the season is upon us and we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Our children are doing well and facing the joys and challenges of life with dignity and grace. We now have 15 grandchildren and they bring us lots of joy. When they ask us what we want for Christmas I don’t know what to tell them, so I wrote it in a poem. Hope you enjoy it and may God bless you throughout the New Year.
 

                                                                                 McKell and Lesa

 

  

What I Want for Christmas

 

Now I'm pushing sixty and know what I can be

This year I want from Santa, a shiny, brand new me

I've been checking with the doctors and they will go along

With metal and some plastic parts the old me will be gone

 

New knees will be the first thing I find beneath the tree

They will feel just perfect, come and you will see

Then the hip will be replaced with a bright titanium part

And then inside my noble chest, I'll get an artificial heart

 

Now that is just the beginning of a grand and glorious me

I will want a dark toupee that looks just right on me

A facelift will be next in line and then a tummy tuck

Liposuction will reduce my weight, with just a little suck

 

You all see the vanity that's locked inside my soul

Because of Santa's checklist, I'll get a lump of coal

But why not go on wishing, in this there is no harm

Probably I will have to wait till resurrection morn

 

                                                                                           McKell Porter