Canceling Christmas: A Christmas Poem

Gas prices are unstable and companies are starting to downsize.

Christmas is on the horizon, and families are starting to stress

This day of all days in America is the ultimate symbol of our excess.

What will little Tommy say if the tree skirt isn't packed

With boxes and boxes of presents, mountains of them stacked?

And how will we one-up our neighbors on trying to outdo

The lights, parties and gifts that we put ourselves through?

It'll be an awful Christmas and one we'll try to ignore

Let's just cancel the gifts to eachother, we're all just way too poor.

My email has filled with requests to not send gifts at all

If we can't do it to the nines, why even go to the mall?

But I remember being young, back before the credit card days

And we weren't rich, but we weren't poor, I'm definitely better off today

We didn't have stacks of presents. We didn't need them if we did.

Instead it was the idea that mattered, not the price tag on the lid.

So if your budget is tight this year and the Lexus commercials get you down

Christmas doesn't have to be extravagant; in small things joy is found.