Decorating the Christmas Tree

While decorating the tree today I started my lights at the top.

After string twenty-three,

I could readily see,

There were more than enough.  I could stop.

So I plugged in the lights I had worked on all day to see how they looked just for fun.

I was sure I could quit,

Cause everyone lit.

Except, of course, string number one.

I brought back the ladder and climbed up the steps to test both the fuses

in-line.

I started to think,

That the lights were the link,

Since both of the fuses were fine.

Then I spent three more hours while awkwardly balanced replacing each lamp on the string.

When I got to the end,

I could not comprehend,

That I hadn’t accomplished a thing.

I was tired and perplexed after all of my efforts and frustrated right to the core.

But, I calmed myself down,

And turning around,

Pitched the tree through the sliding glass door.

Copyright © 2010 by David Mertz