Holiday Blues

Holiday Blues

Got me thinkin' of you

Your smile flashes through the bright lights

and I know it always will

Sometimes the memories are harder to swallow

than a ten pound pill

As coldness creeps in

and the saints try not to sin

As the jingle bells ring

and my sad heart tries to sing

Promise me you'll comfort me

with your sweet embrace

and your smiling face

As I stare at the star that I claimed for you in the sky

Please promise you'll comfort me as I remember you and cry

You may be gone from this place 

that we still walk 

But you'll never be forgotten because

your memories still talk

They talk to me many times a day

But their always shaded in blue during 

this......melancholy holiday

'Cause these Holiday Blues

Got me thinkin' of you

Author's Note

For my Angel........Sabrina

Reviews

[barleygirl]

This is so awesome! I've written several for my best friend (RIP) but nothing coming close to this heartfelt tribute. I love the way you SHOW instead of tell, how the "missing" manifests using vivid details of the melancholy routine. I truly believe our angels are nearby, to help us get by. I also love your unstructured rhymes (to show people its okay to be free with rhyme!) Thanks for sharing your heart in a beautiful poem (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[Cherrie]

I love it, it's beautiful.

[BBP]

Thank you so much Cherrie

[Cherrie]

It is a gift to love someone so well that you always know what they would say. So well that their words travel with you.

[Tate Morgan]

Such a sad melody played by this poem . The holidays are always painful for those who have lost someone.?

[BBP]

Most days are hard, the holidays just let you wrap it up in words a little bit prettier! lol :)

[Tate Morgan]

Had a bad day yesterday myself

[BBP]

sorry to hear it

[Lorry]

Beautifully captured tribute. Once, holidays were happy events, but can also be tinged with sadness for those gone, who fill your mind with happy memories of when they were here. I think bittersweet is the correct term for these days.

[BBP]

Thank you! Special times will always have a tinge of missing the ones we love that have gone.

[The Iron Horseman]

This is absolutely beautiful, BBP. I hope someone remembers me with this much affection when I am gone! Very touching.

[BBP]

awww thank you so much! It was a dear piece to me. I miss her sweet face daily and you are right.... all we can wish for is to be remembered.

[The Iron Horseman]

You're welcome, my friend.

[Relic]

Sad. I'm always blue every Christmas and Thanksgiving but I haven't lost anyone like you have. Holidays are always sad reminders.

Good expression in this BBP.

[BBP]

Thank you so much ... holidays can be depressing regardless lol

[Jimmy Yetts]

Sometimes, lost love lasts the longest.
Poignant reverie with which we all can relate.
Tenderly conveyed, B!

[BBP]

Thank him for the kind words jimmy and sorry I missed his earlier.

[Jimmy Yetts]

Him? His?
What happened to "you" and (likely) "this?"

[BBP]

Hahahahaha thank youuuuu lol

[Chris]

We do miss our ...remembered.

[BBP]

our remembered. I like that! :)

Remembering is the last gift we can give them.

[Dr. YumnaKay]

"Sometimes the memories are harder to swallow
than a ten pound pill"

Aye, so true. This was quite a touching write and I somehow already knew who it was about before reading your note.
Been a while since I read one of your pieces, Bev! Hope you are well :)

[BBP]

Thanks Yumna! :)

Everything's good. Hope all is well on your side of life.

[Dr. YumnaKay]

You're welcome, Bev!
And yeah, it's been a ride lol :p

[BBP]

busy or chaotic?

[Dr. YumnaKay]

Chaotic would be more..appropriate 😷

[chrisbe]

Thats nice, sweet with tenderness within... holiday blues, hope they didn't strike to much.

[BBP]

Thank you for kind review!