Life is full
of ironies and oxymorons but as the Christmas lights twinkle in the nighttime
air
Ponder this
irony that on the irony checklist is beyond compare
Without the
Christmas shopping and the Santa magnet for kids a retailer’s black inkwell
would be bare
But in stores
most often heard is an anemic “Happy Holidays” but a “Merry Christmas” is so
rare
In the
schools Christmas carols, pageants, and Christmas cards are disappearing faster
than water in a pond under a Death Valley sun
A nativity
scene from the past on public property is in the PC world a relic that must be
shunned
Even Santa
Claus, jolly old St. Nick known for his reindeer driven sleigh and his down the
chimney so quick
Is under an
unrelenting PC attack
In a Big Apple
public school given the sack
In the rigid
PC world that has only thin skins and no magic in which to believe
The cardinal
sin is to in Santa and the Prince of Peace gift of peace try to retrieve
The magic of
Christmas has in the past caused soldiers to leave trenches
And from mind
and heart for a day the dogs of war to releash and wrench
Christ in
Christmas to the PC world seems so out place
To honor the
Prince of Peace in their view is an outdated idea in disgrace
What would happen
if other than for the children a new Christmas idea would hit the ground
running?
The gifts
that one should exchange would be a gift to charity or the homeless would be tidal
wave in the economy most stunning
The
retailers would be soon howling with high pitched rants
“Bring back
the Prince of Peace!” would be their frenzied chants
The Magi
would no longer be rolling in their heavenly graves
We mere
mortals here on earth would the meaning of Christmas save
From the
orgy of Saturnalia’s gift giving stress of credit card debt
For material
tokens ignoring the soul that more likely than not the recipient would discard
or soon forget
©
December 25, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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