Poor Santa Claus

"Poor Santa Claus" is a short poem that begins as a cheerful fantasy about becoming Santa Claus — sneaking down chimneys, reading children's letters, delivering gifts — but quietly shifts into something far more tender. The speaker imagines the weight Santa carries for every empty stocking, every child who wakes on Christmas morning in tears, wondering if Santa simply forgot them. It is this hidden grief, not the magic, that makes the narrator grateful to remain just himself.

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