Lonely Christmas

The tree stands tall and decorated
with tinsel and with lights
With presents scattered around beneath
as it glows so bright.

The shops are decked with boughs of holly
the spirit of the season's here
Everywhere the carols are playing ~
Christmastime is near.

Though it's the season to be jolly
without you here with me
Christmas will not be Christmas
until the day you're free.

Not a moment of the day goes by
that I don't think of you
All alone without me there
to share this time with you.

This Christmas Day I'll be alone
with you close to my heart
I'll miss you more till your release
than the miles keeps us apart.

For Christmas is togetherness
to celebrate in unity
And we will have our own Christmas
when at last you are free.

We'll be together as one in spirit
but it's not the same I know
Still once we're past December
it's not that far to go.

This Christmas won't be the same
without being with each other
This was a new year of our lives
and our first one together.

So if you asked me for just one wish
I guess it'd have to be
That this Christmas will be the only one
you'll spend without me.

© Christina
24th December, 1997

"A sad and lonely time for me, when our first Christmas together was spent in the heat of the visitor's compound on Boxing Day. My family lived 1000 kms away, and my fiancé (now husband) was in prison because of a "manipulated justice". It was time of strengthening in our relationship, but it was also a very trying and lonely time for both of us ~ especially Christmas."


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