Something Lost - Join me on my quest to find Christmas

Photo by Rita Bourland 2012

Something Lost

 

 Over the next 25 days

I’m going to try to find

 My Christmas spirit, 

I lost it somewhere,

There are plenty of things to blame:

Ugly politics,

Fiscal cliffs,

Black Friday,

Swine flu (yes, I really had it),

But then I realized there’s really no one to blame

For something I lost except me,

I don’t want to be one of those people

Who has to find a scapegoat

For everything that goes wrong in my life, 

 I’m just saying that I am currently

Unmoved by sparkling lights,

Puppy dogs with red ribbons ‘round their necks,

 And sweet young children with lists written to Santa, 

Such a sad state of affairs

 For a normally optimistic,

Christmas loving person,

Over the next 25 days you are welcome

To take the journey with me

And try to find that spark again,

The reason for the season,

If we’re lucky, we’ll find it together,

See you tomorrow.