My Christmas cheer will last the year
Though Santa’s hat fall off my ear
To be picked up and packed away
Or left abandoned, chewed and frayed.
What difference thus to outward fur
When hat on head makes not the cur
But hope in heart is what gives cheer
To puppy barks of “Happy New Year!”
For Sadje's What Do You See #62
and Melanie's Word of the Day Challenge "HOPE"
Image credit; 五玄土 ORIENTO – UnsplashSee the sepulchral ash, the sulphuric fume
See the primed portals set for me and you
See the smoke, the tea, the burnt residue
Just six more guests to speedily consume
Don’t fret, not yet
Never fear, my dear,
There’s not a shortage of fools in Bara-Du.
Written for Sadje’s What Do You See picture prompt, product of an eerily terrifying image combined with insomnia .
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