Christmas Past

The days now, cold and gray December passed with less happiness in the fray while the quiet and solemn memory of Christmas slips away. How long we prayed, hoped, and waited excited, anticipating, and debated the arrival of that joyous day fated. Christmas carols on the radio stations played long before the coming of the happy day on Thanksgiving in the rush of living in the virus fray. Children made lists, precise and intense knowing most parents would not spare any expense while less fortunate, could only think about their meals and rent. The age of the 2020 year brought more sadness and tears and as the New Year hung in the distant churn of fears some found themselves lost in the cold denial of their peers. Covid-19 and pandemic blues touched every me and you, placing a depression on those of us who surely knew, it was no hoax, not God's cruel joke, but men in their world view. Now we close out the Christmas season hoping for more common sense and reason and 2021 slips in, with the light, wisdom, and blessed believings.