When is Twelfth Night ?
How long should we keep our decorations up
Once Yule is done ?
Should we pick the morning after Boxing Day
To start the shun ?
Or maybe on the drawn-out New Year’s Eve,
When we must kick-around
Just waiting for the final hours –
We’ve plenty time to take them down.
The baubles and the strings of lights,
We bid you au revoir –
Along with snowflakes, swirls, and sprites,
And finally, the star.
Or hang on till the Fifth of January,
And the party’s gone –
When we’ve likely all gone back to work already,
Needing to move on.
Or simply when the tree has lost its green,
And tinsel lost its cheer –
Then time to pack the season in the attic
For another year.
The cards from off the bookshelves,
And the wreath from off the door.
It’s time that we regain ourselves –
Normality once more.
Rhyming Couplets 