Christmas List
©2021 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Olesia Buyar on Unsplash
image by Olesia Buyar on UnsplashYou are not on my Christmas list.
A sadder truth was never told.
Your dear name vanished in the mist
with nary a gift to wrap in gold
and no vestige of you to hold.
Death comes so quickly in the night
and leaves so little in its wake,
drives loved ones cruelly from our sight
with none of give and much of take.
My list is absent you. I break.
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If this poem resonated with you, you might also relate to Christmas Comfort and In Gold and Grief.
Tags: bereavement, child loss, Christmas grief, Christmas List, death, grief, holiday grief
Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.