Could someone please tell me who wrote this??? I have no clue. I found
it in a book--no author cited. Could it be a song lyric? T'is a
puzzlement! Thanks.

"Christmas, like a lover, says goodbye--or doesn't and just leaves.
Wondering why you're alone your cries break through the air 
like cracking ice under your own feet as Sobbing saxaphones play, 
"I'll be home for Christmas."

Melancholy engulfs my mind in a fragmented purple abyss of time 
stretching on forever, Wrenches my heart, wrings out the last drops of joy.
Peace has fled and Santa Claus is all that's left that makes any sense."

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Request for Question Clarification by justaskscott-ga on 23 Jul 2005 19:04 PDT

What is the title and who is the author of the book in which you found
this passage?  (The page number(s) could be helpful too.)  In what
context does it appear?

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Clarification of Question by foxtrotwarrior-ga on 23 Jul 2005 20:03 PDT

Title/author of the book is moot. This was on a separate piece of
paper which had been torn from some other publication and tucked into
a book of Christmas prose and verse which I bought at a second-hand
shop. No title listed, no author cited. I am curious to know who may
have written this little piece. As sappy as it is, I like
it--especially the last line. I regret I can offer no better clues
than this. Thanks. Foxtrot Warrior