Christmas Poem for Cathy (2013)

A personal poem about Christmas mis-adventures from years gone by

Put your head against mine

On Christmas morning

Just before the Alarm goes off

And your cats start marching

Up and down in your kitchen

And remember what it was like,

Of the way Snow used to come down

Outside where you used to live

Leaving that taxi taking us to my parents

Going up and down that hill

Like it was trying to tackle

A ski slope rather than a ride out,

In particular when I knocked off

All of the labels skidding down the road

Leaving us guessing all the way down

Whose present was who’s

Much to the amusement 

Of both my father and brother,

And on the way back

When the taxi driver

Couldn’t get his taxi going again

And I had to help him

Push it back up the hill

In a attempt to get kickstart it

Totally defying gravity

A lot like what your cats do

Every morning.