After the feast cometh the beast
Unfulfilled resolutions a bucket list
The stomach is a full cask
But the heart is an empty flask
Recycled needs are renewed desires
Wants & wishes are runaway fires
With festivities gone private
Happiness is a social media advert
Christmas has lost its meaning
Many a soul out there pining
Each a performer with no spectators
Wanton lost & found wanting testators
Mbongeni Khumalo: Author of the poetry collection Apocrypha