The holidays are getting near <br />Bringing most people great cheer <br />These days bring back pain from the dead <br />The holidays I always have to dread <br />Thinking back through the many years <br />Trying to be happy, holding back the tears <br />Getting through life one day at a time <br />Out of the darkness I must climb <br />I can't live in the pain from the past <br />Please let it be over, don't let it last <br />I love the warmth from the summer sun <br />So let this time of year be done <br />I like the green grass and flowers in bloom <br />They make me happiest, instead of this gloom <br />So hurry up summer and come back around <br />And I won't be sad, happiness I'd have found <br />I have a good life and what's wrong with me <br />When the holidays come, I can't feel free!<br /><br />Donna Nimmo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sad-holidays/
