Dec

24

Christmas Undressed

Filed Under Inside Out 

Candy snowflake

Christmas is much like salad dressing,
Oil and vinegar need lots of messing.

Shaking, stirring, whipping to blend,
Family relationships willing to mend.

–It’s never perfect, and it’s never instant.
In fact, to grow close, it first becomes distant.–

And sometimes no damage can repair,
A relative’s lack of care.

The love-less feeling sticks to your throat,
For years and years, to get your goat.

What Christmas does, is remind you of a time,
When the lot of you, got along fine.

This is the picture through the frosty lens,
When in years past, each played pretend.

Since now the pretense isn’t sugar-coated.
Sincerity, not selfishness, has been out-voted.

And all the while, it sucks to discover,
Your cast ballot, never did matter.

So the high road is decorated with ornaments and lights,
Gin, Whisky, Cabs; Muscatels, and whites.

However,

Not one to drown myself in liquid sorrow,
It’s the essence of the holidays, I need to borrow.

For a force, beyond me, is a must,
Before the holidays are to bust.

So the salad starter, I am skipping,
Strength, from example, is what I’m enlisting.

Because, I am determined to do my part,
To friends who live deep in my heart.

For no matter when the day turned sour,
Many souls were ready to dower,

Their care, their patience, their understanding,
Their life on pause, notwithstanding.

–Not to say prior, friendships hadn’t take hold.
It’s that as I get older, they’ve become bold.

Friends have become the wine of life,
The soothing spirit of vinaigrette strife.–

And so to see Christmas in this new light,
Is to give it renewed might.

Which is why this year the salad spinner,
Wrapped, and gifted; will be a sure winner!

In all seriousness, wishing friends and family a very peaceful and Merry Christmas.

(Remember, it’s only called arguing if it’s loud. Otherwise, it’s called a heated conversation.)

Love to my friends, who keep showing me, and reminding me, what it’s all about. For relatives who make no distinction between my relation and my being.

I am, because you.
xoxoxo

IMAGE + POEM | ANS | Snow Fall in Love + Christmas Undressed | 2008 | Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and candy wrappers from Polish chocolates and fudge. The poem? A consequence of daylight savings and a very satisfying popcorn dinner, eaten in good company.

Comments

One Response to “Christmas Undressed”

  1. JM on December 24th, 2008 7:48 pm

    Strength, sweetness and joy to you! Merry Christmas (#1). Love the snowflake - it’s genius. Since I will and do imbibe, here’s to you!

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