<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Holiday Poem<div><br></div><div><div><div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Everyone wants a piece of you.<br>Even the elderly oaks, their<br>branches draped with lichen <br>lace, are reaching long <br>limbs towards your body<br>as you pass. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The demands are ceaseless, <br>it seems. The ways to say <br>yes, change direction, <br>possibly crumble. Still, <br>you let the branches brush you. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Until you hear the rushing <br>of the downhill stream,<br>the wide green hand of the <br>mountain letting go, letting forth.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">It asks nothing. <br>You lean into, <br>you follow <br>that sound.</span></p></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><br></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Amy Elizabeth Robinson</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>