WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

― Edith Sitwell

 

An Alternative Christmas Message

 

Merry Christmas to you and you and YOU

I hope I left no-one out

Happy Holidays to everyone

can you hear me shout!

Singing out praises

and counting my blessings

Christmas is here

I hope I learned at least some of my lessons

Santa Claus will be here soon

Do I hope he brings me lots of presents?

NO! It's more about being with family and friends

and remembering those whom we are missing

OH! But when consumerism and Amazon Prime

tops the bill of mankind's prized obsessions

acquisition of such useless things

hoarding of a lifetime's possessions

the whole world takes a backward step

becomes less whole and creates a hole

so the W for world and the W for hole

stands for Waste and Want and a different Christmas story unfolds

Far from the days when Christmas was about

being kind and loving to all on Earth

when did we stop teaching children

about our Lord Jesus' birth …

decorate the tree put a fairy on top

rather it was an angel or a star

twinkling lights and fake glass baubles

plastic landfills in the Earth and the oceans deep and far

think about the dinner that you will eat

enough food to feed more than five thousand in the Bible

do you think the fish that were fed back then

consumed masses of plastic; now it's unreliable

to assume that the food we feed this generation

will be as pure as in Biblical times

the choices we make now will depend on how

we move forward; redress the balance of these present climes

a big hole in the ozone did not appear there overnight

and it will take a lot more darning than a sock

but maybe if we each do a little bit each day

we may save our planet and rewind the clock

and if we do not heed the warnings of our time

then we will certainly make mankind like dinosaurs, extinct

but if this happens then so be it

for the Earth will recover faster without us, I think

and let us hope the creatures of the Earth will too survive

the flora and the fauna become more multiplied

for I think it is us humans who will be our own undoing

there is no greater time to change things. It's time now to decide.

 

- AP - Copyright © remains with and is the intellectual property of the author

 

Copyright © protected image please do not reproduce without permission

 

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all <3

 

Home-made Christmas video card

Done