Gone Bar the Shouting

 

It’s gone bar the shouting

Christmas Day and its holidays,

The shouting in this case

Meaning New Year’s Day.

 

Of course, that will be Sunday

With the bank holiday to follow

On which the festivities of Christmas

Will be downed in a final swallow.

 

It will peter out on the sixth

Completing twelve days of Christmas

And so, we will end Christmas activity

And all the associated fuss.

 

The shouting will have ended

And hopefully back to work

For all them that still have a job

And do not care to shirk.

 

Today we will see how it goes

After the extended weekend

But we need “all hands on deck”

To halt the current trend.

 

 

By that I am meaning

The economic hole that we are in,

Production is an absolute must-

It’s time we earnestly begin.

 

It’s a far-off payday I remind us

To the next payday to come,

We are not yet into the New year

But December pay is done.

 

However, this is not unusual

Given the Christmas spending spree

So, we must cut and contrive as needed,

Until payday in January.

 

No doubt there’s an empty feeling

Now that Christmas Day is gone,

Some of us wish it would continue

Right into the next one.

 

However, this is not sustainable,

It cannot be everyday

So, let us bask a bit in it its memory

And get back to productive ways.

 

While I am a Christmas baby

And can’t wait for the next to come,

I’ll enjoy these remaining Christmas days

Until this one’s course is run.

It is gone bar the shouting

But I know that its reason remains,

For me that is Christ Jesus

And for all that revere his name!

 

Do take the Christ of Christmas

Into your heart for ever

And unlike this Christmas season

He will leave you never.

 

Stewart Russell © December 28, 2022