A Christmas Card for a Stranger

A Christmas card for a stranger

There’s an empty space on the shelf this year

Where a Christmas card should be

For every year I’d send a card

And you’d send one to me

But Heaven has no mailbox

I cannot let you know

That you will always be my friend

And that I miss you so.

So I’m sending out these words

To someone just like me

Who’s lost a friend or two this year

That they miss constantly

For love is like a Christmas card

It’s better shared around

And love brings hope and comfort

Wherever it is found

A heart is here, just for us

To cut it out and write

The name of one whose memory

Shines like a candle bright.

Let’s raise a toast to friendship

For the ones we won’t forget

And share peace and joy at Christmas

Between friends who’ve never met 

 (Jo Collett December 2018, in loving memory of  Jill, Ruth and especially Irma).