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Audio and Video Music:
The Lake.
By Jahzzar.
Performed by Jahzzar
at the Free
Music Archive
under an Attribution-
ShareAlike
license.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
Cheer is not what
you'd expect from Christmas:
Headaches are more like it, lack of sleep,
Raw nerves, rough words, waits to make you weep,
Irritable hours, days, intense, relentless.
So much money, time, so many dreams
Tied to one quick wanton winter's morning,
More an orgy than a merry dawning,
A ritual divorced from what it means.
Still, each year the love within it
gleams.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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