As we lock the doors
slip off our shoes
kick the snow from them
Rip down last years decorations
tinsel gaudy like a transvestites favourite attire
we re-read cards from people we can't remember, can't stand and who hate us!
We look at the gifts people atributed us with, knowing those who we are just an after thought to, and those to whom we are a real person.
You could be mentally scarred when you receive your fifth aromatherapy set!
What is that about anyway?
Did Christmas change or is it myself
The childish wonder has been replaced by anxiety stress and the opposite of goodwill
Leaves me every year practically divorced!
I always get ill, and not from the christmas cheer!
Then there are the sales to contend with!
People barricading themselves against shop doors
to get something for nothing!
Gentle Jesus just weeps and the curse of Christmas sleeps
a dragon to be awakened 12 months from now!
However somewhere in the distance I hear the sled bells and I promise next year will be different.................
Slipping off the shoes and taking down the decorations . . . what a romantic image. I have watched my Beloved in exactly this situation, and it is beautiful!
Starward
The first stanza is utterly, exquisitely beautiful, and the rest of the poem proceeds wondrously from there!
Starward