Preparing for Christmas (today's re-post)

Poinsettia for the table

Bloom of festivity

Pretty little angel

To grace the Christmas tree

Lights and pretty candles

Lend their gentle glow

In tiny golden circles

Like choirs on the snow

Cookies, cakes and puddings

In volumes quite obscene

Large and tiny presents

Wrapped in red and green

Songs extol the season

Malls, the latest rave

Excuses become reason

As dollars become brave

Stress finds brand new victims

Cheer loses its mirth

All in preparation

To celebrate Christ’s birth

Shopping lists extended

Beyond budget’s creed

Holly, jolly merchants

Disguise greed as need

Christmas Eve descending

We brave the cold perhaps

To find within a chapel

A pew, where we collapse

My house sure looks amazing

The food, a work of art

Wouldn’t it be something

If this had been my heart?

© Janet Martin