Collateral Christmas Holidays – By Gilles Chiasson Dec 26 2009

I am quite sure it was never meant to be this way
Full of pressure, hostility and addictive abuse
Domestic uproar, spilt over gravy boats and broken toys
Babies crying, children anxious and parents fighting
Most damming of all, the promise, the hope, the expectation
That this day should be happy and deeply stirring
Too many find these holidays a source of pain and sadness
Months trying to pay off the bills for a few days
Materially misunderstood grief and greed

Few among enjoy what these holidays purport
Warmth, joy and peace in abundance true
Most experience the hit and run qualities
Of empty wishes fulfilled, feeling disappointed
This is the result of not seeing the real value
What we are told is expected of us to deliver
Failing to grasp what we really want to give
And what we really want to receive during
These most corporately manipulated festivities
These are the collateral damages of
A Christmas holiday poorly presented

BIO    Gilles Chiasson

Resulting from a night of frolic, I was born to very dysfunctional parents and siblings in a catholic home during the mid 1950’s.  Had I not picked writing as a compulsion I would surely have been alcoholic, or worse yet!  My ego, which is always in need of attention, is an honest one having been formed from a damaging early childhood at a time when a victim was always wrong.  So today I appear to have tremendous hubris, when in fact I am just terribly misunderstood.

I work tirelessly to champion clarity about violence, and maintain the most violent place in the world is the family home.  It is the root of all that is wrong with our society – not drugs, not video games, not rap music, not those kids down the street.  I am the product of domestic violence and if you look away with disgust then you are a part of the problem too!

Today I work in a food bank where I am familiar with desperation, neglect and hunger in all its form.  I write because I feel the need to, not because I hope to be the next great scribe along with Shakespeare and Hemmingway. I write because I know my subject matter.  I write to maintain my sanity.  If you can relate to something I wrote, then I have been touched deeper that you may ever know..

http://gillistrophy.wordpress.com/  *

Above is the address to my website which I will be updating on a regular basis with new poems, fictional short stories and lyrics even.  Please be my guest and hope you entertain you more often.

Peace
Gil

*also find Gil’s link on Peacock’s “important links” in the future

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