Oh Didn't The Year Fly By… Poem by Mark Heathcote

Children, it's safe Santa won't catch alight.
look the Yule logs now burn twice as bright
As is this warm spirit refreshed with ice.
Or is it granddads dancing - beyond price.

'Ding Dong Merrily on High' oh, didn't the year fly by.
So many tears and squabbles I-just don't know why?
Look, look out the window, Wow, the snow is falling.
Children, can you see the carol singers-hawking.

Filling pockets now 'stockings are empty.'
'Ho ho ho' where did the old sleigh go - Dostoevsky
So many things go missing or get broken.
Toys or sometimes play is verboten.