Song of the Day - 2nd December

Happy December!!

You might think that this is the perfect moment to dive into the joyful embrace of Christmas music. After all, the advent calendars have been joyfully opened, the stores are brimming with festive delights, and perhaps you've already begun your Christmas shopping or are contemplating the start of that exciting journey.

Worry not - we will indeed celebrate with Christmas music very soon. But before we immerse ourselves in those cheerful tunes, it’s important to acknowledge that today marks the beginning of Grief Awareness Week (2nd December - 8th December).

For many, Christmas is a season filled with joy and laughter. Yet for others, it can be a time of sorrow. This may be the first Christmas spent without a beloved companion, or perhaps the loss was some time ago, but the pain still lingers. Some might even find this season tinged with bittersweet memories if they lost someone around this time of year.

Therefore, our first song of December is a heartfelt piece for Bereavement, titled "Let Me Go" by Christina Rossetti.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an extraordinary English writer renowned for her romantic, devotional, and children's poetry, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember." She also penned the lyrics to two well-loved Christmas carols: "In the Bleak Midwinter,” famously set to music by Gustav Holst, Katherine Kennicott Davis, and Harold Darke, and "Love Came Down at Christmas," which has also been beautifully set by Darke and other composers.

“Let Me Go” is a poignant poem written from the perspective of the lost loved one, gently urging those left behind to cherish their memory, not through tears, but by embracing the joy of happy memories.

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Let Me Go

By Christina Rossetti


When I come to the end of the road

And the sun has set for me

I want no rites in a gloom filled room

Why cry for a soul set free?


Miss me a little, but not for long

And not with your head bowed low

Remember the love that once we shared

Miss me, but let me go. 


For this is a journey we all must take

And each must go alone.

It's all part of the master plan

A step on the road to home. 


When you are lonely and sick at heart

Go to the friends we know.

Laugh at all the things we used to do

Miss me, but let me go.

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