Holiday Reads: Christmas Poems & Stories

The Forgotten Present by Shaun Allan

Stuck at the back 

Of the Christmas tree 

In the corner where you 

JUST can't see

 Is a present

 Not wrapped in bright paper

 No ribbon or bow 

The box a bit battered 

With a dent and a hole 

 There's a present 

Forgotten for years 

It sits without fuss 

For a child to come 

And open it up 

But the present 

Has been there so long 

It's forgotten just what 

Is hiding inside

 Its tatty old box 

 So the present 

 Just stays where it is 

Quietly hidden away 

And when the tree isn't there 

The sofa is shoved in the way 

 And the present 

 Hopes that one day soon 

Santa will come back 

And pick it up again 

And put it back in his sack 

 Then the present 

 Can be given once more 

To a different child 

One who'll open it up 

With a huge Christmas smile 

 At the present.