{"id":2313,"date":"2016-12-01T14:50:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2016-12-01T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T22:50:15","slug":"lonely-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"Lonely At Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Lonely At Christmas<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wanna be lonely no more.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t wanna answer the door.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I know it means more heartache for me.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

All I want is to really be free.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Free from all the pain and hurting inside.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I want more than just to know I tried.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been down and lonely for so long.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I have no idea where I went wrong.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I see people enjoying each other\u2019s love.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Like blessings sent from God above.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I have never been able to enjoy this.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is truly something to bring bliss.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Just four walls and a deck of cards.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

A table that rocks to make it hard.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I spend my time playing solitaire. <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Wishing for a call from anywhere.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The holiday season is worst of all.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Celebrating Christmas is no ball.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I sit here carving up some spam.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Wishing the best for every man.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Something is tearing me up inside.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

My pillow is wet because I cried.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I will hug my TV till someone comes.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Someone to bring me out of this slum.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

The word lonely isn\u2019t the end.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is an endless hell to walk in.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

There seems to be no way out.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Life sucks, if this is what it is about.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I pray Santa will answer my call.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Bring me a girlfriend to end it all.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Let me have a real Christmas.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

One that I do not want to miss.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

———————R. W. Johnson—–(2016)<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lonely At Christmas I don\u2019t wanna be lonely no more. I don\u2019t wanna answer the door. I know it means more heartache for me. All I want is to really be free. \u00a0 Free from all the pain and hurting inside. I want more than just to know I tried. I\u2019ve been down and … Continue reading Lonely At Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,12,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-random","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}