Christmas Never Comes To Me Poem by Vanessa Alvarez

Christmas is never meant for me,
That's the refrain, my constant plea,
Each time the season fades away,
I tell myself, "No joy today."

Christmas joy will never stay,
It fades and breaks, it slips away.
I hope, I hurt, I fall, I see—
Christmas is never meant for me.

And so again I say 'I will not hope and dream again
For festive cheer, for sweet refrain,
Yet as the season draws in near,
My heart still longs for light sincere.

But when the day at last arrives,
No gift, no joy, no dream survives,
Disappointment takes its place,
A shadow falls on Christmas grace.

So once again I softly vow,
No merry Christmas waits for now,
And still the cycle turns, repeats,
A bitter song with broken beats.