The Music Box

Remember last Christmas Eve

When we sat next to our first tree

Ornaments reflected light

Of a candle in the night

And I gave you a music box

Back then that seemed like so much

We watched it go round and round

As the melodies unwound

But all these things are now long gone

And not to be wished upon again

But the musical box continues to turn

The candle in the window continues to burn

But I know they're just memories

Like Christmas past and you and me

Remember that old fireplace

That held the room in warm embrace

And as we watched for Christmas ghosts

The fire held the shadows close

But now upon that Christmas scene

The candle wax of melted dreams

And ornaments of shattered glass

Now belonging to the past

But all these things are now long gone

And not to be wished upon again

But the musical box continues to turn

The candle in the window continues to burn

But I know they're just memories

Like Christmas past and you and me

Behind that single letter

Was a weathered photograph

Of that man in the article

But from somewhere in his past

And standing there beside him

In a setting summer sun

Was the lady who used to own this house

Only here she was quite young

She had moved to a smaller place

That was only right next door

And then the child noticed something else

That she had missed before

This letter had no stamp it seemed

And was surely never sent

And as she sat upon the floor

That child she wondered what it meant

Then the Angel whispered to her

A most important fact

That for compassion to be real

It requires one to act

Then once again that child came up

With a child's idea

But she knew she must act fast

For time, it was growing dear

So taking that article back downstairs

She found the kitchen phone

And called up information

To find the number of his home

And when he picked up the receiver

She quickly told him quite enough

To know who was waiting on this night for him

And then the child, she just hung up

Then to make sure that no one was awake

She took a quick look down the hall

Then she found her neighbor's number

And repeated that same call