Christmas gamble?
Is it wise to gather together to celebrate Christmas this year?
How can we take precautions to protect each other isn’t clear!
Try social distancing for Christmas dinner using a bench in the park?
For to plan for safe distancing indoors could prove an impossible lark.
It should be a time of goodwill, hope, and peace on earth,
With friends and family gathering to celebrate
The Birth,
But with Covid on the rampage life is increasingly bleak,
Especially with our leader’s plan to give lockdown a tweak.
If we ignore the virus for a while and all take a short break,
Swopping caution for a prayer to control it, perhaps make,
After a Christmas sojourn we will most likely pay for our folly,
When maybe millions more will die, just for a brief festive jolly.
If friends, parents, grandparents visit each other for even a day I fear,
Multiplying Coronavirus infections could make their futures disappear,
So hug each other fondly, before you bid them goodbye, as they go home,
It may be the last time you see them, if the virus amongst them was sown.
Christmas, usually a happy time with family and all those that we cherish,
This year is different as unfortunately many more people could perish,
Any time of year the Coronavirus doesn’t pause but carries on hunting
For more victims to infect and won’t stop just because of the bunting........
The carol, Twelve days of Christmas, has been sung joyfully for years,
But alas, I suspect that these five days of Christmas will only bring tears.
If we stay sensibly cautious for a while longer, staying safer, who knows,
Perhaps we’ll stand a chance of sending COVID-19 away on it’s toes!