SCOPE CHRISTMAS POEM 2004

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah and hear
Friends, Romans and colleagues please to lend me an ear
So that on this momentous occasion, non shall loose or fear
As we all laugh together, not forgetting King Lear !

A year has gone by, oh boy what things we have seen
In came a new Boss, not that the old one was a Has-Been
The stage was set, an “Away-day” brought in a new scene
The Network was searched for new fruit to glean .

Not just the Dailies, Weeklies, or Monthlies kept us all ever so busy
There was the MTP & TnR; GSAP & OCA; GSE & MVA to keep us dizzy.
And news from the Top shocked the World, putting us all in a tizzy
So Obi-1-Kanobi brought in the solution, yet it won’t be easy.

But now, let us remember in this tide of Season,
Why are we here, to celebrate what and with a reason?
The Birth of a Man, a God some said and thought treason
Yet only a Babe the Shepherds saw, putting their fleece on.

The giving of Gifts is though relatively new,
As the story of the Fir tree grew and grew.
Yet is that why the Son of Man came, to sit in a pew?
So I wonder what does Christmas really mean to you?

Thus as you sit to ponder anew this age old Question,
listen to me as I try to make a decent suggestion.
To stimulate the grey cells, and assist with the digestion
let your earthly mind wander to a spiritual digression.

There can be so much more to this our hectic life,
as we go to work with the routine Scope shuffle and jive.
Following the money on LP’s from Seven to Five.
Far more than paying the bills, or living in a hive!

God send his Son to this blue planet Mother Earth.
It was This babe to whom in a Manger was given birth.
He came for each of You, not to see you fill your girth.
Yet we celebrate once, and God always chuckles at his mirth!!