Another full year of the COVID-19 pandemic with its
variants aping death and destruction in tow
Masks, mandates, lockdowns, ventilators, vaccines, crowded ICU’s, inflation
soaring a president’s ratings that daily reach new lows
Americans are frustrated with the present
and want to Christmases in the future await
To be surrounded by the Christmas Spirit and with friends and family having the
Gift of Peace cover our plates
As we wrap the kids’ or loved ones’ final gifts and prepare to nod off on
Christmas Eve
Hoping the gifts in short supply about to be given will be well received
In Dickens fashion no former business partner ghost to visit in our dreams
But vying for air time in our REM sleep screen is the Spirit of Christmas Past,
Present and Future team
Hard not to welcome the Spirit of Christmas Past
As a kid believing in Santa and his sleigh laden with gifts hoping the belief
would long last
No internet or shopping on line to head to the malls and circle for a parking
place
Standing in line patiently to on a store Santa’s knee to grace
Christmas Eve services and setting out for Santa milk and cookies
Trying so hard to stay awake to catch however fleeting a Santa lookie
Carolers in the streets, Salvation Army pots, school Christmas pageants, office
parties throughout the season
Businesses shut down, the idea of eating out save maybe in Chinese restaurants
an impossible attempt at culinary treason
A simpler time, much less stress that 50 years ago listening to “All I Want for
Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth”
The gift now most wanted now not in the Christmas Present sleigh was from
COVID-19 more relief
The pandemic in the Spirit of Christmas Present is still with us with Omicron
which is spreading like a Santa Ana Winds blown wildfire
As vaccine mandates and quarantines mean large numbers of workers, first
responders, medical personnel, pilots and crew we can no longer hire
Though super contagious Omicron’s effects and symptoms are very mild
But still the bureaucrats are on mandates, lock downs and social distancing
still running wild
Enough to the nightmare cause the dreams to come to an end
But not before the message the Spirit of Christmas Future was beginning to send
Vaccines will continue but therapies are now becoming front and center
Drugs now and soon to be released that will stop the virus in its tracks
whenever infection enters
And the proven therapy of natural immunity too long ignored
Will also be relied on to the path to normalcy begin to restore
The politicization of the virus will slow and Fauci’s flip flops will no longer
monopolize the floor
More and more the effect of the virus on life will mimic a cold or the flu more
and more
Still for the elderly in the winter of their life’s reign
We will need to be alert but not necessary to from the celebrations and
observances of past Christmases refrain
© December 24, 2021 The Alaskanpoet
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