Different Wishes On Christmas Poem by RIC BASTASA

beside the
christmas tree
the widow
makes her wish
to see her
husband
sometime
this year

the suffering
is seemingly
endless
she is falling
short of
tears

on the other side
another
single parent
whose lover eloped
with another
younger woman
still persists on
her one wish

someday another
true lover comes
to ask her hand
for marriage....

the last one who
had been childless for
years
kisses the hand of
baby jests
asking for
a son....