Showing posts with label # Passing Christmas Lights # Poetry # Covid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label # Passing Christmas Lights # Poetry # Covid. Show all posts

Saturday 19 December 2020

Passing Christmas Lights

 


Passing colors glowing, tinsel hung high 
Christmas lights, shimmering and sparkling
the smell of food, enticing on tongue
another world lingers though
a different reality resides
in the corner of our eyes
beyond the tragedy of hunger
the waste of consumerism
austerity that daily bites.

For many now the air drips with sadness
as the cold season blows again
people on their own, due to Covid pandemic 
as the sky above turns dark and grey
citizens left wanting, running on empty
struggling on, feeding on misery and decay
but think of all the Turkey's that will be  saved.

Perhaps some small acts of kindness
will be sufficient to keep some gladness alight
against buffeting winds, strength can grow
allow people to decorate hearts with hope
fill glasses full of reason and some cheer
with little things, perhaps time will heal
abandon the past, infiltrate the future 
share some sustenance of survival.