Home Alone Christmas Copyright © Rod O'Donoghue 2011

Home alone Christmas
No knocks at the door
No cards by the fireplace
No tree on the floor
No “bird” in the oven
No stockings or gifts
He sits there unshaven
Depression won’t shift
Avoiding the tele
Whose jingles drone on
Where crowds form in melees
And choirs sing their songs

All painful reminders -
Separation – apart-
His home alone Christmas
Is only the start

For New Year follows on....