The Last Noel

If the doctor gave you a month to live Could you keep that to your self? Could you swallow your fear for thirty days And keep your secret stealth "You could possibly make it through Christmas", he said "If there's chemo in your veins" So she silenty took the treatment, once more And still she never complains She'd been in remission for seven years But again it started to grow Her children knew that the cancer returned But her secret, they didn't know She would only tell her brother the news And he swore he wouldn't tell So Christmas finally came and went But it was to be their last Noel Then on the tenth day of January She took her secret to her grave After she died her children were told Of this sacrifice she gave She wanted this Christmas to be the best A Christmas like no other For she didn't want her kids to be sad This woman was my mother