Shane Cooper Poet I do not know?

Christmas Past

I sit still in a house of tranquillity,
Thinking of times long past.
Remembrances of a child,
Of childish delights and pleasures.
Of times spent with my grandparents,
Of Feelings of love and wellbeing.
Of family and Christmas spent together.

No longer do I hear the sound of their laughter,
Nor feel the comfort of their presence.
They have abandoned this world,
And have left a hole in my heart 
A void that can never be filled.

Childish joy’s no longer fill my soul,
Life has stripped away the illusions of youth,
Laying bare the true futility of life
To be and then to be no more.
The endless cycle of life and death.

Ah! Then the miracle of Christmas arrives
Renewing, filling my soul once more.,
And the visions of childhood stream back,
They race through my mind 
A torrent of Images, feelings, love.
Of family and joyful times spent together,
I am again a child.
And dwell in the love of those now gone.

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Jan Allison January 2, 2015 at 9:09 PM With recent events in my life I too have spent a lot of time reflecting on Christmases of the past so I can really relate to the sentiment in your write - in time it will only be memories that we have left so we should cherish these precious times together:-) Hugs Jan xx Jan Allison January 3, 2015 at 8:43 AM Sean you must have such happy memories of them my friend - you are lucky I never knew 3 of my grandparents and my Grandad was not a particularly nice man and caused massive rifts in the family:-) hugs Jan xx Shane Cooper January 3, 2015 at 5:27 AM I was not sure about theis poem as I wrote most of it sitting at my grandparents grave, I take flowers up each week. One of my little follies