Christmas Fell Over

Christmas Falls Over

It’s festive not restive
An impossible collective
And a subliminal moment
Of goodwill

Without peace

Its drink and excess
An inappropriate caress
The silent wishes of those
Wanting to be elsewhere

Stand and stare

Its television by remote
and music by decree
it’s a thousand little lights
hanging from the tree

present and correct

And the children
Ah the children
Given too many things
And not enough love

Wrapped in stuff

And then it’s gone….

The sleepy
The drunk
The weepy
The angry
The silent
The dreamer
The disappointed
The parting
The fateful
The pessimist
The hopeful

Gone like pine needles
Lying dead on the floor
Alongside the morning
After the time before

© SJ2009