I loved you and watched you flourish and grow,
not once did I question what I would soon know.
That you would be taken one Christmas Day,
I had no knowledge nor even a say.

I lost you that morning, my heart broke in two,
I know that God gave me a gift in you.
He also gave me a gift in Christ, His Son,
and He too, like Mary lost their only one.

I cannot say my child was a gift from me,
because this is not how I would want it to be.
But the greatest gift I could give Christ himself,
besides my own heart, is a part of myself.

My child bore no Christmas papers or bows,
but he gave You his heart, this everyone knows.
A Christmas gift to You, I still hold in my heart,
and to come to You, he would have to depart.

So on Christmas day, his journey began,
because he knew that You had it in your plan.
He would join You in heaven to be near your throne,
to make sure his loved ones would find their way home.