Sometimes it seems
The simplest things
Become so hard to hang on to
I’m just here thinking on paper
Planning for my next caper
But it doesn’t make it less true
We just saw Christmas
Another years worth
And I was better in the spirit this year
But it sure wasn’t perfect
And I bet that’s true for other folks near
I used to be married
It was my own time of Camelot
Back when my world was complete
Two kids and a wife
I thought that was my whole life
Why did the Captain order us to retreat?
Someone I talked to
Back in the beginning
Told me the answer was not
Anything too complicated
And it could be found
Inside the life that I’ve got
He said I’d built the perfect
Game of my life
It had the best of any yet made
And if I considered
I’d find out that
I could come to my own aid
The solution he said
I might discover within
I’d forgotten to give myself a way to win
But there was no need
To despair, for like children and fools
All I had to do was learn to change the rules
So if your tree was decorated
With every star and light
That you found to show
And you wanted so bad
To find the Christmas spirit
Like the way the tree glowed
We can keep searching together
To find the only piece
Of the puzzle that’s missing
And who knows
It just might be on the same star
We find ourselves wishing
©MM

that's kind of nice, and different

Nice sentiment... it was different