Time to relax, it’s Christmas Eve

Shopping has been done,

Presents lie beneath the tree

Children to bed have gone.

 

Time to reflect in silence

Sitting by the fire

A moments quiet solitude

`Till I myself retire

 

The smell of turkey fills the room

Of onions and sage,

My memory is racing back

To an early age.

 

When I was young, excitement

Filled the Christmas air

Ears pricked to hear Santa

Walking up the stair.

 

Of the happy times we had

A close knit family

Of presents, parties, laughter

And a real Christmas tree.

 

A tiny tear falls down my check

It will never be the same,

I have visions of lost loved ones

Dancing in the flame.

 

Let’s come back to the present

And hear the children say

‘Thank you Mum and Thank you Dad

For a lovely Christmas Day’.

 

Let’s hope in twenty years time

When they stare at the ember

The flames will not roll away the years

This Christmas they’ll remember