Christmas rhyme

'Christmas rhyme' by Heather Trickey

by Heather Trickey 23rd December 2016

Deck the universal mess in brittle tinsel!
’Tis the season for a public pantomime
Two-thousand-and-sixteen reasons to be cheerful – ho! ho!
Scramble into this year’s Christmas rhyme.
It’s the season for unreasonable reverting,
Fix the hinges, put up beds for dad and mam,
Prepare to face the feast of grievance-nursing,
Loving each other as fiercely as we can…         or, no