Everybody’s Christmas Invites a Visit from Marley’s Ghost/Judith Ayn Bernhard

 Poetry
Dec 232017
 
  • Everybodys Christmas Invites

    a Visit from Marleys Ghost

    In winters darkness we huddle

    under heavy bedclothes and

    waking to the hour that is not

    yet morning

    We remember Christmas Past

    How the intersection of childish

    greed and unmet expectations

    always led to broken toys and

    strained relations

    And turning on the lamps by

    our beds and shaking the old

    visions from our heads

    we make a list

    For a better Christmas Present

    But our catalog of luxury gifts

    and sumptuous celebrations

    leans heavily on the Santa Claus

    of our imaginations

    And we come to the conclusion

    that our fantasy beneficence

    is merely an illusion and

    so we begin

    To dream of Christmas Future

    When Peace on Earth is manifest

    and kindness replaces avarice

    and the cold air is filled with love

    And humbug is a word

    weve never heard

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  • Judith Ayn Bernhard is the author of the poetry collection Prisoners of Culture (CC. Marimbo)  She lives in San Francisco with her husband, Byron Spooner.

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