When Santa comes to stay
the children stay away
they seem to find him overwhelming
not quite true in his special way.
For nothing comes but once a year
without a price to be paid
with his funny suit and fatherly grin
knowing innocence must fade.
He never really gives us hope
filling sack and stocking
we need a saviour to come to stay
with revelations shocking.
<Deleted User> (13762)
Wed 26th Jul 2017 08:15
bit early Ray!
More and more Santa has come to represent our self-centred greed for consumerism. It's time he swapped his red cloak for a green one but can the masses be persuaded? I thinks not. The glaciers will melt and we will all be clinging to that landfill mountain of unrecyclable glitzy packaging, floating migrants in a swirling gyre of throwaway plastic.
Hang on, maybe Santa is Christ returned having a good old piss take as our mortal sins cast us ever more closer to hell's fiery pit of eternal damnation? And to think, all it took was one bite of an apple.
How's that for an interpretation Raymondo?
Merry Christmas!
Col.
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raypool
Wed 26th Jul 2017 19:45
Thank you fans. I always like to attack a theme when no-one is expecting it, so I thought i'd catch Santa with his pants down seasonally. I think Santa may actually be Christ in a suit and hat but with an insane smile. He does fulfil a promise if only temporarily but only if we believe, and I can't really change either into a believer or into the suit, even though I am the right age now. I much enjoyed your comments Col and David sparky to say the least. I remember doing a poem about Punch and Judy another example of worrying cross dressing. Thanks Emer for liking!
I'm just off for the medication - things are looking up!
Ray