Christmas is over and the goose no longer fat -

No-one put a penny in the old man's hat -

Presents are all opened -

Paper thrown away -

Parents back at work again -

Kids gone out to play -

Me inside and lonely -

Emptiness around -

Hark, hark the dogs do bark -

Wrong! No Yuletide sound -

Just open the gate, open the gate -

Welcome in 2008!

Pippi Strauss (12 yrs)