Written from a student’s perspective, this poem captures the silent emotions and unspoken reflections that often define the season.
Christmas does not always knock loudly
With bells or borrowed laughter.
Sometimes, it arrives unnoticed—
Between unfinished thoughts
And tired evenings.
It settles in the silence
After the lights are switched off,
In the pause where we finally listen
To what we have been avoiding.
Candles tremble,
Not from the wind,
But from the weight of what we feel
And rarely express.
Here, joy is fragile,
And kindness becomes a choice.
The season does not ask for perfection,
Only awareness—
To see those standing slightly apart,
To feel what celebration forgets,
To give without the comfort of applause.
Among songs repeated every year,
Christmas whispers something unchanged:
That meaning is not displayed,
It is practiced—
And the truest light
Is carried quietly,
Long after the season ends.
By – Divyanshu Panda
Class XI-B
Apeejay School, Saket