Christmas without you

Christmas without you

So this is Christmas without you

Smiles much brighter

eyes more clear to the world around

a heart much lighter

so this is what is feels like to freely express

to know the true spirit without your smothering presence

constantly watching, judging, and “Offering” your opinion

Always controlling all that surround you

So this is Christmas without you

being free to feel and oh so free to do

to sing, to shout and dance

to smile, cry tears of joy, and experience that warm glow

For Christmas with you was hindering

with you around one could never sing, dance or express freely

you controlled, constantly nagged and put your thoughts out there

for the rest of us around you, had to remain, faceless, soulless

So this is Christmas without you

true Christmas, true joy, yes decked with flowers

red ones, yellow ones, mixed in with the leafy green

Christmas colors, in a form very seldom seen

Things that are precious to us

moments that mean the world to those close to us

can no longer be tainted and contaminated by or your lack of sensitivity

Christmas for us has returned, leaving you to your ghosts of past, present and future.