JUST LIKE ANY OTHER DAY

JUST LIKE ANY OTHER DAY

When the festive lights are fading,

And the tinsel’s in despair.

When all good cheer has dissipated,

Resolutions lie broken everywhere.

The headache’s just receding,

After toasting in the New Year.

The cost of all this merrymaking,

Crippling debt is now the fear.

After all the hearty back slapping,

And the renditions of ‘Auld Lang Syne’,

It’s a return to children murdered in Syria

And the world in fiscal decline.

I look with disdain at this revelry

The supposed friendship and joy,

As, just like any other day,

The brutal killing of a student boy.

A family wiped out by a madman

An innocent man stabbed in the head,

Don’t talk to me of a happy new year

Let’s be realistic instead.

Just as the tree is discarded

The turkey carcass rotting away,

All the false camaraderie and peace

Is forgotten for many a day.

Phil Hall   January 2012