Welcome to Cozy Poetry Corner by Debra A Winter (Richter)

“You Choose the Magic Door: Right or Wrong”

As the door opens wide, look inside —

Peace and harmony and quiet miracles hide.

Close it again and the cold, bitter night appears,

Leaving you wondering when warmth will draw near.

Choose the path of comfort or the one cold as ice;

A gentle heart or hardened one–each has its price.

I choose warm, with a kindling fire lighting my night,

It’s warm glow around me makes everything right.

For dark, bitter cold makes me shiver in my boots;

I wasn’t raised that way — that wasn’t my roots.

My parents wrapped me in a warm blanket of love,

A gift passed down to them from God above.

So when I stand where the dark and light meet,

I’ll feel the warmth with my bare, trusting feet.

For I know in that glow, love’s embers will burn,

And in my heart the cold, I’ll never yearn.