Not Home for Christmas

There are many folks today who cannot for one reason or another be home for Christmas. Those serving in the military are certainly the one's who we think about this time of year. We have empathy with the emptiness their families are experiencing.

This is for all who are away from home this Christmas. It is a poem I wrote entitled, "Away Again."

I am away this Christmas,

but I will send my heart

to ring each bell you hear

when reason keeps us part.

I can’t be with you now

to sit there by the fire

and hold your hand in mine

and fill my heart’s desire.

When you awake my love

You’ll feel my Christmas touch.

Know it is my message -

I love you very much.

I can’t be home this year

to hear the season sing

nor be with you to smile

at every little thing.

I can’t be home this Christmas

to decorate the tree

So hang a stocking too

from heart at hearth for me?

When morning comes at dawn,

with every breath I take

I'll hear your sweetened laugh

to take away my ache.

I can’t be home this Christmas,

if only it weren’t so.

Hear my special Christmas wish -

never again to go.