The Christmas Attic

In this room where shadows live And ghosts that failed learn time forgives Welcome, friends, please stay awhile Our story starts with one small child Who spends this night in attics dark Where dreams are stored like sleeping hearts And so it's here that they must wait Till someone wishes them awake For somewhere on this night of nights She's looking to believe Here among the ghosts on Christmas Eve And there near an old looking glass There was a trunk from Christmas past That she had somehow missed before But now decides she will explore 'Twas filled with toys and one old wreath And several letters underneath So as the evening hours leave The child sat down and started to read For somewhere on this night of nights She's looking to believe Here among the ghosts on Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve

Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 25, 2025

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There in this night There is a life Someone who waits for me Only a child Dreams and a smile Waiting to play And now she's found Snow on the ground Magic has been set free She's waited here All of this year Just for this day And then the night comes alive With lights to dazzle And everything's extraordinary Nothing is left ordinary Christmas has come With its long memory And in my mind It always will be The world that she sees Caught in this night Pieces of light Glitter and play for you And made of glass Dreams from the past Wait for this day And if you try Look in the sky One star is shining through And on this eve You can't believe It's far away And then the night comes alive With lights to dazzle And everything's extraordinary Nothing is left ordinary Christmas has come With its long memory And in my mind It always will be The world that she sees There on this night Pieces of light There on this night Pieces of light Christmas has come Christmas has come The world that she sees The world that she sees On this night On this night The world that she sees Then after he had thought awhile The father recalled another child Born in a time now far away And how this child's dreams Had reached this day He wondered what that child had thought And when he slept what dreams he sought And did the shepherds understand All the hopes in that child's hands? And how those hopes would still survive As dreams within each newborn's eyes * * * Then the child heard a clock tolling From a distant city tower And she gazed up at the starlight On this Christmas midnight hour And she wondered if these stars Were all but bits of dreams From somewhere in the distant past That somehow, could still be seen And she wondered if her candle Upon this magic night Could be seen by someone faraway As their own starlight

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O Holy night The stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear savior's birth Now you all heard the story about Bethlehem How the child was born and the three wise men Heard the preacher tell it like the preacher does But let me tell you, children, That's not how it was Now you might ask me what I'm talking about But I know the part that they all left out Now do you hear what I said That Herod wanted those wise men dead But on that blessed evening My great great great great great great granddad He saved those kings Now granddad made his living Playing jazz you see But jazz wasn't big around one A.D. So he got himself a job in the palace band Where he heard about three kings In the desert sand Let me tell you children that at any time Three kings in the desert that's a real rare find But Herod heard of it too And when he heard his curiosity grew So he asked those kings to drop by And my great great great great great great Granddad He wondered why So the Magi told old Herod That they had come here To find a newborn king of kings Who'd heal our sins Then herod told his guards To follow those Magi And that the only king around here Was gonna' be him Then he told his soldiers as I recall When they found that child, to kill them all But granddad overheard what Herod said And he had to act fast or else they'd all be dead So granddad got to those kings Filled them in on the plan, told them everything When they heard what he had in store They grabbed the gold The frankincense The myrrh, the jewels The desert tents And when they found His plan was sound They followed granddad out the back door And what a night It must have been But when God is on your side You kinda' know that in the end You're gonna win They traveled fast They traveled far And in the end they found That they were standing with the Child Beneath the star Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah And so you see we've reached the end Of our story When granddad and the kings Reached that stable on the hill And while I said that Three kings in the desert is a rare sight Angels singing in the desert that's far rarer still Now I ain't sayin' that the bible was wrong But ya' see the whole tale Would have taken too long 'Cause way back then in the promised land Every copy they sold, It had to be written by hand And granddad lived a long life Stayed friends with those kings And found a good wife And eventually I came along But that my children That my children That's another song The next letter included a receipt For one toy stuffed bear Donating it to a small thrift shop But somehow it was left there For attics have their secrets And toys will have theirs, too Like who once held or loved them When they last were new Whether they were made of metal Or they were cotton stuffed Or how they had been left here When they were not enough And so it's here that they must wait Between reality and dream Hoping all will be remembered And that all can be redeemed Then in the sound of the wind Whistling through a door She thought she heard the sound of children That had held this toy before And she then thought to herself As she now held it in her hand That no one could save all the world But we should save who we can So she placed it near her candle For she had decided in her mind That when she left this attic He would not be left behind

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 25, 2025

Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas Merry Christmas The hope that he brings The hope that he brings The hope that he brings The hope that he brings This night We pray Our lives Will show This dream He had Each child Still knows We are waiting We have not forgotten On this night On this night On this very Christmas night

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 25, 2025

The next letter that she found Was by a ribbon gently bound To the key for a small music box And she placed that key into its lock And the melody that it had learned Once again began to turn And as that tune it filled the air She opened the letter that was there And that letter contained a news clipping About a man with many things In his world, a great success And where he lived, the best address His happy life the world did know Because the papers told us so But the Angel he could clearly see That all was not as it appeared to be For on this night as snow clouds gathered That man wondered if that all really mattered And on this night inside his home He realized that he was alone And he asked himself what his life had meant How all these years they had been spent And how he could feel his life such a waste When he had every dream that he had chased But then the Angel whispered in his ear And in his mind the man heard clear Tell me one wish that you have granted Tell me one life you've enchanted Tell me one of these things that you have done But the man could not recall a single one He was close to no one, this thing he did know Well there was one person, but that was long ago And though that someone Had been far more than a friend It was far too late to ever go back to her again

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025

He believed in the things That he always thought he knew And had done all the things That he always wanted to do Collecting Each thing reflecting his worth But now he pondered How he had wandered this earth For we all seem to give our lives away Searching for things that we think we must own Until on this evening When the year is leaving We all try to find our way home He had time or at least then he Always thought he did And mistakes, well, he thought that time Always would forgive Each transgression For his intention Forgetting Years he squandered On things he now was regretting For we all seem to give our lives away Searching for things that we think we must own Until on this evening When the year is leaving We all try to find our way home For we all seem to give our lives away Searching for things that we think we must own But on this evening When the year is leaving I think I would be alright If on this Christmas night I could just find my way home There is something about this night That the Lord has arranged That reaches deep into our souls And causes us to want to change And angels know things about us That no else can know And this Angel's heart it formed a plan And then caused the night to snow

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 25, 2025

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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

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 25, 2025

A railway station On a long forgotten line No destination But it always leaves on time He buys his ticket As the train prepares to leave Don't want to miss it On this night Christmas Eve He stared into the night no expectations He watched the world go by without a sound He saw the city lights arrive and fade away While all that night All that night The snow came down No conversation As the snow fell from the sky His consolation That the world is well disguised He stared into the night no expectations He watched the world go by without a sound He saw the city lights arrive and fade away While all that night All that night The snow came down He stared into the night, no expectations But in his heart he wanted to believe That somehow someone would be waiting there Upon this Christmas Eve And when his train it pulled into that station He saw there was a single pair of tracks Within the snow and leading to that Station door And he followed those steps back And on this night of our salvation Where dreams that have been lost Can there be found They walked away together On that Christmas Eve While all that night All that night The snow came down In this last season of the year This season that we trust It's not only important to know for whom we wait But to know who waits for us And as they walked home together To the light of Christmas trees They could not help but wonder About how this night came to be While back inside the attic The girl saw them walking through the snow And she smiled with a child's delight Thinking how they would never know And suddenly she realized Beneath this night of stars Sometimes Christmas uses its own hands And sometimes it uses ours

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 25, 2025

Christmas time in the middle of a city Seeking its salvation With every string of lights That suddenly appears Children stare with new found wonder No one dares to break the trance Every wish is carefully numbered And God has granted all a second chance This day And all at once The dream's begun And as we mark the old year's passing Strangers greet On every street And suddenly there's goodwill everywhere There's Christmas in the air On this night To this light We see it all again On this night To this light We see it all again On this night To this light We see it all again On this night To this light We see it all again All again On this winter night We still wait for you And now the time has come When all the world is one And as we mark the old year's passing Strangers greet On every street And suddenly there's goodwill everywhere There's Christmas in the air There comes a time when we're on our own Some times in life such a thing must be But such a thing should not be known This night This night This night And all at once The dream's begun And as we mark the old year's passing Strangers greet On every street And suddenly there's goodwill everywhere There's Christmas in the air The final letter that she read Was from a younger man It came with a journal That was all written by hand He had done something so wrong in life That he no longer wished to live But on this night he had a dream And found that God forgives If we truly regret how others we have hurt He will understand So he took the message from this night And became a different man

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 25, 2025

In the night Was the dark In the dark Was the dream In the dream Was the Child And myself There unseen In the book was the word In the word there was truth In the truth there was age In the age there was youth And I said to the Child Do your hands they still bleed After all of this time Do you think there's still need But the Child only smiled And said not a word And the snow it came down As if it hadn't heard And all that night the snow came down To heal the scars our lives had found And the dreams that lay broken And there upon a bridge of dreams Across the night we walked unseen With no words ever spoken And then on through that night We did walk for a while And our steps turned to blocks And the blocks turned to miles Then we followed a path For as far as we could Till we found ourselves there In an evergreen woods There were thousands of candles Upon every tree It was beautiful But there was one mystery For with all of those candles You must understand That the only one lit Was now in that Child's hand And there upon that Christmas scene The candle wax of melted dreams And the years they had taken And as the snow did gently fall He one by one relit them all Till each dream was awakened And there to that light That young Child showed to me All the things that he dreamt All the things that might be How for everything given That something was gained Strike one match in the dark And all the world's not the same And then I asked that Child Why this night has a star And he said, "So we'd know That we could see that far" And these candles are wed To that distant star's light And it all came to be Upon that long winter's night That long winter's night That long winter's night That long winter's night And when I awoke, well the Child he was gone But somewhere in my mind I believe he lives on And somewhere in my life Between here and the end On a long winter's night I will dream him again Then she noticed on some Christmas cards A reddish purple stain Where someone had spilled some Christmas wine And there it had remained Until the heat from a radiator Whistling in the air Had caused it to evaporate Into an angel's share

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 25, 2025

Deep inside this Christmas Eve Watching as the hours leave Gently drifting in the air Shadows of an angel's share Christmas lights On Christmas nights With peace for every nation Stable scenes And evergreens With snow still glistening Angels grace This humble place With hopes of our salvation Christmas cards And snow filled yards And children wondering Rejoice All awaken Rejoice Quickly hasten Rejoice For the newborn king Rejoice For the vision Rejoice He has given Hear the choirs as they sing Scrooge returns To once more learn That Christmas ghosts conspire To redeem His soul it seems But still he hesitates To believe He's not deceived Until this night inspires Him to find That at this time It never is too late Rejoice All awaken Rejoice Quickly hasten Rejoice For the newborn king Rejoice For the vision Rejoice He has given Hear the choirs as they sing And sing And sing And sing and sing and sing Winter dreams Her endless scenes In endless combinations To embrace This world of faith This world that we now see Every year It returns here With all its variations And as the day It fades away And we once more find that... Once again the promise kept One by one the angels slept So we leave this night in peace And the world in gentle sleep When she finished the last letter From that little stack She put each one in its envelope And carefully put them back Then she sat and thought quite carefully About all she had learned Realizing that her belief in this night Had completely returned For if all these grownups she had read Had in this night believed It could not be possible That they all had been deceived And she marveled how though every letter Was signed with a different name That in the end it seemed that all Their wishes were the same That the light that reached our lives From that distant Christmas star Would make us, if not perfect Then perhaps better than who we are And suddenly she noticed That there was a present there He must have come and left it When she had gone down the stairs Then she realized as for that chimney She needn't have worried after all For Christmas she had found this night Could not be stopped by walls Could not be stopped by distance Could not be stopped by time And if one lived a thousand years It would still be there to find Now some will say that all these gifts Were left by her father or her mother But I for one, will always suspect It could have been another And before she went back down the stairs With her fading candlelight She found some paper and wrote down All that had occurred that night And sometime on some distant night We really can't say when Someone will read that letter And this night will live again And so our story's over And the child returned to bed To dream about this magic night And where it all had led And the Angel who had heard her thoughts About what she had learned Now realized that his job was done And it was time he should return And taking back all he had brought He returned just in time To appear before his Lord And tell him what he had left behind There were two souls reunited On a snow blessed Christmas Eve And sleeping safely in her bed Was the child who still believed And once again the Lord smiled down From his heavenly throne And took the Angel into his heart And whispered, welcome home And may you also hear those words All through your life But may you hear them most of all On every Christmas night Merry Christmas! Post Script And the most magical thing About this night we will now reiterate That no matter where you are in life It never is too late

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 25, 2025

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 music 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 music 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 I miss you baby Oh yes, I do And it's been far too long Since I last laid eyes on you I got the lights upon the Christmas tree I got the candle lit for you to see And beside this window I will wait For inside this night it's not too late I got the lights Up on the tree They're shining bright If you'd just believe Just believe with me The candles burning You know I'm gonna wait The clock keeps turning But I know it's not I know it's not too late I got the lights upon the Christmas tree I got the candle lit for you to see And beside this window I will wait For inside this night I know it's not too late

Submitted by The Void — Apr 25, 2025

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