Sunday, December 26, 2021

Christmas Pines Song for the Deluded

“If hopes be dupes, then fears may be liars”
 -Arthur Hugh Clough

 

You can’t hide from Christmas Day, it will find you.

And the presents that you get, will remind you

 

Of the many years before of more delusions,

Being crushed on Christmas day, in confusion.

 

Finding out that those you liked don’t like you back,

And at dinner hiding grief for what you lack.

 

So you try to stay in bed or take a walk,

Hoping time will pass you by and you won’t stalk.

 

But the day will run you over like a truck

Even though you thought that life would never suck

 

If the pain just hurts again then you can pray

For the other people also not okay.

 

And you know that in the million years to follow

There’s a love that heals all hearts still feeling hollow

 

So please stay alive and wait for nicer times now

Even though that no one really knows how

 

It is true that there’s a hope so real it blinds you

And I pray that better Christmas Days will find you.