High School with Antlers

Emotions make up Christmas,
some wonderful, some lousy,
some cherished, some the stuff
nightmares are made of.
It's a time of vulnerability,
of triggers, of being around
behavior that made you who you are,
of people who can take you instantly
from a rational adult to a scared toddler.
Emotions make up Christmas. 
But when we are more than emotions,
when we see what's happening
and rise above it, when we choose
and that choice is the best we could make
we can experience the great, the loving,
the wondrous and love that toddler we were
and the adult we've become.