• The girl shouted out "No!."
    as the kids tore her bear,
    all the stuffing falling in the snow,
    they left without a care.
    She started to cry,
    and collected the pieces,
    always so sensitive,
    to all of their teases.
    A boy comes up,
    holding the rest of the bear,
    he asks her hesitantly,
    "Will you leave him in my care?"
    The girl is taken aback,
    thinking he's only joking,
    but since the teddy bear was beyond fixing,
    she decided to say 'yes' instead of moping.
    The boy smiles warmly,
    clutching the bear to his chest,
    "I'll make sure you get him back."
    and then leaves without a rest.
    The girl starts to wonder,
    but figures that he's gone,
    never to see him again,
    and taking her teddy bear along.
    The day before Christmas,
    five years ahead,
    the boy, now grown up,
    is thinking the worst to dread.
    "What if she doesn't come?
    What if she forgot?
    I know I wouldn't have come
    especially for the like of my lot."
    But just as he's mumbling,
    the girl, with her chestnut hair,
    walks out into the park,
    surprisingly giving him a scare.
    The girl doesn't notice,
    and stands by a tree,
    the boy comes over shyly,
    saying, "Do you remember me?"
    It takes the girl a moment,
    but when he holds out the bear,
    "I know it took really long."
    and all she did was stare.
    Then suddenly warming up,
    she cries out, "He's back!"
    which surprises him again,
    and he says "Well some qualities he does lack."
    The girl looks at him and smiles,
    "I knew this would come true
    I found a note you see,
    it said some thing about you."
    "And what did it say?"
    The boy questions curiously.
    'Then it must have been Santa.'
    She thought oh so mysteriously.
    "A note was waiting by my pillow,
    where my bear did always lay,
    and I found it, to my surprise,
    the next Christmas day."
    The girl chattered happily,
    saying the note couldn't lie,
    and how just the thought of it,
    made her want to try,
    "I read it when it was evening,
    the sky beginning to get dark,
    it told me to wait for you five years,
    in this exact park."
    The boy understood then,
    and said a silent thank you,
    to a Santa somewhere up in the North Pole,
    who knew everyone's wishes, the ones that are false, and ones that are true.