The Holiday's Keep Coming Around....a poem from 2009

This is a holiday poem assignment I wrote in 2009, a non-exclusive performance only pay.



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The Holiday's Keep Coming Around


Holidays are coming around again.
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and all the rest-



It's hurry, hurry, a flurry of activity.
Every year, we plan to do better.



But every year the days and weeks run together.
Time it flies so fast, nothing is done, no money is saved to spend.



No gifts have been made.
Perhaps next year will be better.



But the years have passed, and time it still flies.
We're getting older now, and can see the flurry of activity from times past.



Looking back we see where we could have planned a little better.
But today, we are tired, time it's come and it's gone away, again.



The Holiday's will soon be here yet again.
We want everything to be the best, but somehow nothing ever is.



Maybe next year we say.
But for some of us this is our very last Holiday.



Age it does not matter, health it does not matter.
No one knows if this is their very last Holiday season.



Perhaps next year will be better, but maybe this year will be our last chance.
Thanksgivings coming fast-



Let's not forget those who have past.
But let's not live always for a better year.



Because my friend.
Who knows if this will be for you be the end.



Time never waits. Death it never stalls.
It is appointed for us all once to die, and then the judgment.



Today we live, but we have no promise of tomorrow.
Let's not live this Holiday in sorrow.



Thinking and planning of yet a better year.
This may be our final year.
The snowflakes may fall, but yesterday's tears will always be clear.



The Holiday's are coming.
Think of this year as the best.
If we live yet another year, consider the next holiday season the best.



Have fun, be cheerful.
For today may be your last day to shine.