Two Sides to Christmas

the sky grows colder but in the warmest way,
letting everyone feel that it's close to Christmas day,
feeling the love and cheer that it brings,
listening to the bells and carols sing,
knowing the joy that the cold can make,
smiling when you see the children wake,

feeling the cold when you're by yourself,
wishing and waiting to keep for your heart to be found on that shelf,
never knowing the warmth that others can feel,
wanting to know if the Christmas joy was real,

two sides to every story,
one can have a happy ending,
the other can end gory,
it all depends how you see yourself and your life,
you can choose to let that happiness in,
or you can choose to let yourself live in strife.