Christmas Wish List

So what do you want for Christmas?
asks Lily who lives next door.
Well, I don’t want Pictionary –
I’d lose every time: I can’t draw.

But what DO you want? Mum and Dad join in:
an e-scooter to fly whizzing past?
No! They scare me, I’d fall off, I know it –
they go much, much too fast!

Do you want the latest Transformer?
No! I’d have to arrange an exchange
with Pete or Sunita or Daisy –
I can never make them change.

We could get you a nerf-gun-thingy:
they’re really hard to break.
No! I know it would end really badly –
I’d be sure to shoot Nan by mistake!

What about one of those books
That’s specially personalised?
No! a book that knows more about me
than I do? A horrid surprise!

Everyone loves Harry Potter;
you must want an invisibility cloak.
No! No one would ever find me again –
you’d forget me, like a bad joke.

But there HAS to be something you want, they say,
we know you’re only bluffing.
OK, what I really, really want,
is absolutely nothing!

Nothing is something you can’t break
and it’s something you can’t lose;
you can keep nothing for ever and ever –
yes, NOTHING is what I choose!