Christmas Disquietude

Christmas is a time for Happiness and Love
Love your Planet? 
Don’t spend your money on Plastic
A Hug is worth far more
and does not cost a Tree
Please save yourself from Debt
Prevent yourself an unhappy
New Year’s resolution 
Of Worry and Misery.

Try wrapping gifts in newspaper
Tell the kids Santa is now Eco-friendly 
As he will Lose his Home
The North Pole will melt away.
Border control will refuse him entry 
and his elves will be found

SUFFOCATED

Seeking Somewhere Safe to Stay
Prized antlers Wrenched
Fur and Flesh sharply prepared
A Tender and Tasty delicacy
To be cooked Medium-Rare
Another Dear Extinction to those that Care

Parliament Pirogue about Summer in offshore locations
Where banks secure money rather than support their Nation
And a Santa-Free Christmas now a whole day of
Political Propaganda
for the family on TV
in a Democratic Dictatorship hunt,
Glass words from Posh-Private-schooled
(Please insert own noun)
that don’t know us from Adam

OR EVE

but continue to feed us with Egotistic Speeches
because they are more important than the stories
of Santa and Jesus.

‘But, I say, this is nothing to do with being underprivileged 
Mental health or disability  
Or-dare, The vote in the house is Unanimous,
Those working-class mugwumps are just
Lazy’

The poor and the elderly 
Frozen in lives of isolation 
Dementia-like democracy, repetitive lies
Benefits always decline, whilst taxes continue to rise 
Take us back to the Poor Laws of

1834

You don’t need to 
Damage the planet to show you Appreciate your 
family and your friends
Just continue to be there for them until the very end
Be compassionate and let love rule over violence
Don’t just sit there
Seek out those Strangers that Suffer-in-Silence

ALONE

Company and warm words and will go so such a long way 
To making someone smile on Christmas Day

Merry Christmas