Practice
In the next life
I’ll be selfless
Always fearless
Always kind
Always true
I’ll be thoughtful
Always helpful
Always loving
and subdued
I’ll fly with angels
Smile at strangers
Give to others
and to you
All my time
All my treasure
At your pleasure
I will do
In this life, from now on
I will practice at these things
So I will never falter
when the Lord
gives me my wings.
-J
A Christmas Toast
To my family and my friends
It’s Christmas time again
Another year is over
and just around the bend
a longer year than most
we all wished that it would end
I hope we never see
A twenty-twenty here again
The election, it’s all over
The vaccine, just months to come
We’ll celebrate with eggnog
we won’t dare forget the rum
The Christmas tree is up
The stockings are all hung
The mistletoe we skipped
So few kisses, that’s no fun!
The schools will all be open
The masks will disappear
No rush on toilet paper
We’ll be free to breath the air
We’ll dine inside if we want to
All store owners will declare
Come inside, there’s no Corona!
Come inside, pull-up a chair!
Merry Christmas one and all
Happy New Year, yes it’s true
At last we’ll be together
Shed our fear and all our blues
God bless the ones surviving
All the ones who passed-away
Here’s to twenty-twenty-one
Here’s to you and better days!
-J