Zulu’s Wish

All I want for Christmas

 

Doesn’t sit beneath a tree

nor twinkle among the stars

the Christmas wish for me

arrives only by plane or car

 

I crawled upon the bed

something I know I’m not to do

but sadness overwhelmed me

thunder-shirt, kerchief and all

 

so I climbed up here anyway

hoping to hear that, SHOUT

“Zubie, get off that bed!”

but silence only echoed

 

 

loneliness within my head

oh what I wouldn’t give

to hear you shout my name

mom reminds me every day

 

that soon you will return

and nothing will have changed

but dad I fear this can’t be true

I’m lost in tears of sadness

 

For nothing else will do

to ease this lonely space

unless I cuddle deeply

within the scent of you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

~ by coffeegrounded on December 18, 2014.