🪷 Holiday Cheer Can Be Heavy to Bear

a poem for my struggling friends (and anyone else who needs it)

This one’s for those who are feeling apart

and alone at this holiday time—

if you had to get space to protect your heart

or you lost the one who was your rhyme,

if you’re still in the fray, but you’re breaking down;

if you feel you don’t know what to do—

holiday cheer can be heavy to bear:

respect and compassion to you.

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Papaya (and Cinna, on the floor) by the Christmas tree

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In the notebook

(I mostly wrote this in my head while driving and thinking about my dear friends who have been through a lot and are still going through it.)

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