Christmas Is Coming - and No One Can Stop It

in a voice to stun the town crier he shouted “CHRISTMAS IS COMING….. AND NO ONE CAN STOP IT!!” unlike the “Who’s” they needed no Grinch to steal Christmas… it had been taken long ago packaged and pilfered denuded of its joy its secular sadness… exposed OH, it will come without Cindy-Lou’s pleading a few hearts will grow.... a few sizes the cracked tower bell awaken a church mouse a child toss it… a crumb an old dog sniff unheard footprints floorboards creak under unseen weight in a quiet voice mankind still whispers “Christmas is coming.... and no one can stop it??” John G. Lawless ©11/17/2018