Christmas Cards
Writing Christmas cards,
trite, shallow, pointless
Christmas cards,
growing more depressed with each.
'Tis the season,
the music,
Ol' Claus,
colored lights,
all contrived,
fake and facade,
no reality here,
wretchedly unrealistic…..
Yet images of Hope,
a wish,
relationships that will be, though not now.
The seemingly empty traditions
clarify and express our hopes,
granting vision of what could be.
The almost empty cards and carols
are desperately needed,
pulling us to something better.
…pulling us to be something better.
