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The Fireplace Doesn't Warm Us (poem)

from a Very Slothy Christmas by Seth Walker

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The fireplace doesn’t warm you during Christmas…
Especially when you’re alone… and lonely

I’ve been tipping extra rum into my eggnog,
Trying to make your voice go away, or a phone call come
There’s a gift I’ve already paid for and wrapped,
Sitting at the back of the tree you’ll never see

Though all the songs remind me of you
I still sing, smiling, with my family


The fireplace doesn’t warm you during Christmas…
Especially when you’re alone…

I’ve sat by myself at table of friends
But I know now that you break curses,
By surpassing the assumed limitations…
I’m not just moving on,
For Christmas, I’m giving myself forgiveness
Healing, a break from trying to take a break…
I’m giving myself a new pair of walking boots
and using them…


The fireplace doesn’t warm you during Christmas…
That’s not what it’s there for

It’s only a hearth – a meeting place
So the heart can become the radiator,
Rekindled by loved ones;
The spark, ember, coal conversations…
That keeps us surviving till we meet again,
next year, alive, even if just barely…

to Share our flames
Reignite our weary bones,
And bake next to the fireplace

My dear, I will miss you this Christmas, as much as every Christmas before
And all I expect to come, but I’m letting you know…
this year I promised myself I’d stay warm

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from a Very Slothy Christmas, released November 23, 2012
vocals & music by Seth Walker

Recorded at Love Shovel Ranch Studios
produced by Seth Walker

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Seth Walker Poetry Boulder, Colorado

Seth Walker is Texas' most notorious traveling poet and top ranked slam poet in the world. Seth has performed at venues across the country including Da Poetry Lounge (CA), The Green Mill (IL), & The Nuyorican (NY). Along the way he won: the Utah State Arts Fair Poetry Slam (2009), North Beast Indie Slam North-Eastern Regional 2010), as well as as slamming, with the 2010 Austin Poetry Slam Team and ... more

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