'Twas The Day After Christmas

'Twas the day after Christmas
And all 'round the map
The trash cans were filled
With boxes unwrapped

The fridge overflowed
With leftover meat
And Aunt Bertha's fruitcake
That no-one will eat

The kids celebrated
What some parents dread
The schools being closed
For the week off ahead

The merchants all counted
The profits they earned
While shoppers queued up
With the gifts they returned

After Yule sale signs
Crowded the floor
In hopes that the shoppers
Would spend even more

And Uncle Joe’s fretting
That “tax time is nigh”
Yelling “Please turn that down, Tom,
The volume’s too high!”

And new resolutions
Are now being penned
For the diets we’ll start
When the holidays end 

The kids summed it best
As they played in the snow
“Only 364
More days to go!”
The Gift

Fairies will dwell in fairy tales
Cinderella will go to the ball
Alice will peer through the looking glass
And Humpty Dumpty will fall

Dorothy will wear ruby slippers
Ratty and Mole will speak
And princes will wake princesses
With a kiss upon the cheek

The wooden boy, his nose will grow
Each time he tells a lie
Frosty will come alive in the snow
And Peter Pan will fly

We will travel back in time
Or visit a world beyond
Harry will ride the fastest broom
And wave a magic wand

None of this is really true
God did not make it so
Does this fact make it evil?
Every child will want to know

We, as humans, are unique
For we alone can write
Forming thoughts inside our minds
And letting them take flight

The fantasies that come alive
Inside the human mind
Are gifts to us to share and treasure
Now and for all time

And so, you see, God HAS a hand
In making ALL these things
For you can see God’s handiwork
In imaginations’ wings
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