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Loss of Faith
Loss of faith
It was Christmas Eve 1947
A knock on the door, I stopped breathing
Santa entered with a bag
slung across massive shoulders
I saw it was, Mrs Stream next door
She was an extraordinary woman
who managed to get fat in the war years
I thought the bastards had been
telling my lies all those years.
I bet the Jesus stuff is lies to
Get us children to behave and say thank you.
I lost my faith
but didn't tell anyone
I was given woolly socks and a fire engine
made of wood
It was easy to bribe back then
It was Christmas Eve 1947
A knock on the door, I stopped breathing
Santa entered with a bag
slung across massive shoulders
I saw it was, Mrs Stream next door
She was an extraordinary woman
who managed to get fat in the war years
I thought the bastards had been
telling my lies all those years.
I bet the Jesus stuff is lies to
Get us children to behave and say thank you.
I lost my faith
but didn't tell anyone
I was given woolly socks and a fire engine
made of wood
It was easy to bribe back then
Published 15th Aug 2023
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15th Aug 2023 8:14pm
Some people in the past I heard of have played Santa as a way of conferring respectability on themselves. My devout grandmother knew a farmer who was quite a womaniser and snob - while being many years warden of his local church - who in older age acted as Santa at local school Christmas parties (he was also one of the school's governors). He served in the war only as a special constable (a part time cop), his farming excused him from our draft.
However I'm sure Jesus himself would have disowned Santa as not part of his story and I don't see him as part of the Christian faith altogether., just an add-on.
However I'm sure Jesus himself would have disowned Santa as not part of his story and I don't see him as part of the Christian faith altogether., just an add-on.
