. Poetry from The Great In-Between: If Santa had the Blues

Sunday, October 10, 2021

If Santa had the Blues

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Salute.




All I've ever wanted  
All my life  
Is to feel truly alive

Someone to love me
From early morning
To way past midnight

After a white winters
Christmas 
Sunrise

But like all things
Which shimmer
Evocatively

Like much converted
Gold

It's a dream
I still hold onto
Even now

As I grow
Slowly old

Where are you
Wherever you be

Will you find me

Before I cross over
God's golden countries
And swim in its purple
Seas

I once dreamed
An emancipated dream

Dreamed I'll be happy
To parade

For all to see


I was never young

But born
So very old

I've lived a lifetime

Where my memories
And poetic stories
Will be continuously retold

But it's a lonely
Life as I hear

The hooves of the
Track Master approaching

Who haunts all things
Which currently dances

To life's slow grooves

But I'm indomitable

And will face these last
Few years filled
With such grace

And when I see
The Almighty

I'll ask him face to face.
And say

Where was my
One and only

The one to hold
Me tightly
And kiss away

All those
Tears

Wherever I was
Sad and so lonely

On that cold sleigh 


Copyright John Duffy 

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