The Forgotten Present

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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.

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