Two Days Before Christmas
Stores filled with presents to buy
for those who celebrate. For those who do not,
what do you do
when the majority of us sing and drink and eat too much?
Do you even change
your daily routine of stretching the pay check
to fill empty stomachs
and gentle bewildered youngsters who don’t understand
why those kids get new toys
and we don’t? Do you explain what's happening and why we get together
with relatives we cannot
relate to or accept or deal with or do you just pass off to a later
discussion you don’t want to start?
It’s the bubbles we
currently live in that need explanation
before we are gone
with our age old family stories
of mince meat
and figgy pudding and yuletide choral hymns.
A gift of a smile and peace to all
matters, not the religion or faith or suspicions, but serves
to unite one and all.
© Catherine Woods 2017
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