Building a gingerbread home
I support the walls,
Reinforce with icing;
Raising the roof to be strong.
I carefully made the ginger-bread
so, it doesn’t ginger snap,
Under the weight of that roof.
And on that roof, I line it with gumdrops,
Hiding all its breaks and cracks.
Faults in the icing,
Some of it rising,
Around the rim of the trim.
From that trim I drip icicles
Down to hide the windows,
frosted like glass
To make the wonderland last —
for the gingerbread snowman
who sits on the lawn.
By the green candy lawn
Is a chocolate path to step on,
That leads to the gingerbread door.
Don’t knock on the door.
Please, don’t break the little gingerbread house,
That I made.
While you might turn the lemon drop knob
It will likely fall off,
And ruin the gingerbread home.
Leave it on the stand.
When you come in, I’ll tell you:
How I fixed it up all on my own.
—Alysha Church
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