I have seen a mountain

That reaches Oh so high,

Where crystal sugar snowflakes

Fall gently from the sky.

And rainbow colored dewdrops

Glisten in the sun,

Around the sugar fairies

Who dance, when day is done.

I never knew how beautiful

Anything could be

Until I saw the Sugar Queen

Looking up at me.

She said “We’re Santa’s helpers.

We make happiness!

And for your gift on Christmas morn,

You’ll receive a kiss.

Then sure enough, on Christmas morn,

Mother’s tender kiss. . .

Left a drop of fairy sugar

Pressed against my lips.

And in her eyes, mirrored there,

I saw the Sugar Queen,

Standing on Sugar Mountain ,

The one that I had seen.

                                        By Priscilla Rose Wyatt