#23
the tears are falling on my pillow case
where the silence of our summer love
was written on your face
will I get to hold you once again
the days are cold
and numbing
bitter their refrain
the echo of our love is calling
are you out there
singing out a Christmas song
or calling out for peace
even while the bombs are falling?
do they know it’s Christmas
even here in Kiev
are you singing Silent Night
hoping to believe
you can hear our Silver Bells
gently ringing
As we sing and cry O Holy Night
The choir’s singing, hear it, singing,
softly
won’t you come home
and stay the night?
Christmas comes along just once a year
though tears they last forever
and forever
  and will be here
when all I have to give are empty Christmas songs
as empty as the promises
we make
for all along
when love is gone
it’s gone and goes
forever
But here it will never go away
As long as we have memories of
another
Christmas Day.
when the guns ring out
and echo through the night
holding on to Christmas somehow makes it right
   when I see the love that’s written on your face
and all I have are silent tears
lost in my pillow case
the echo of my endless love is calling
 I sing every song I ever knew
are you still out there
singing every Christmas tune
or calling out for peace
even while the bombs are falling?
#23