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Christmas night now fills a half empty house My lonesome keyboard, its distracted mouse A silent night is squandered without a mate Restless fingers now dance about their fate Words trickle out as emotions dampen eyes Wishing back to a time when a reindeer flies When innocence and happiness filled souls And a row of stockings had more than holes Still nostalgia drags spirits through the past Age regrets that youth disappeared too fast Comfort and joy once the phone finally rings Finding a voice is better than boxes of things A clock erases the pain to birth another day Winter and snow conspires as memories stay A weeks worth of leftovers offers no respite Will next year give hope to a Christmas night Copyright 2009 Robert A. Swart ®
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