Holy Mess

The tip of the fur tree sticks out like a sore candle

Barely visible an angel drowns in a pileup of presents 

Fortunately wrappers and cards are bio-degradable

Each allocated their circumspect place for recycling

Ribbons find rest in a manger on top of Baby Jesus

Who awaits resurrection just breathing under the load


Season’s decorations sum up the festival of love

Finely crafted dollar signs meet the cherishing eyes

Wooden ornaments of cross bows and skull bones

Defiled grave stones miniscule reminders of peace

Guns and roses entwining unmistakeable messages

Thorns are forever and tiny bullets shine like tinsel


Mesmerized the young family looks at their gifts

No plastic in sight because this is a sustainable feast

Chocolate Santas jingle silent nights on Kalashnikovs

Pinocchio attempts to rescue the meaning of kindness

Slides down the chimney on Rapunzel’s delicate hair 

Gets ditched in a trench of poppies bloody like wine


A veiled little figure begs for mercy at the Jolly Inn

Which looks like a shopping mall that hails indigestion

Jojos powered by solar eclipses arrest in full flight

But the children are happy as long as they get a drone

To spread holy prophesies in the name of liberation

From infidel contamination of pagans soldiering on


Jonny plays with the cardboard crates not quite prepared

For what might be in Pandora’s Box and Felix the cat licks

Tins of caviar and dolphin with no tuna caught in the net

Holly and Ivy are too small to digest mince pies and porkies

They shriek when Christmas crackers explode in their faces

Are too young to wonder what might have caused the charade


20th December2019

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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Date: 12/20/2019 5:54:00 AM
There are more gentle ways to enjoy the festival of love, I love that saying by the way Kai, I love your originality, and your spiritual message here, Merry Christmas to you dear poet . xo
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