The Christmas High Street

A tall fir tree stands alone in the cold Winter sun at the top of the high street With a red star hanging from its top Looking down at an angle at the people Below scurrying from shop to shop. Walking through the shopping mall to The sound of Away in a Manger by School children with their red nosed Teacher on an off key keyboard. Shops Alive with ringing tills and happy customers. Overworked shop staff with haloes and Christmas jumpers with reindeer and Snowflakes with customers eager to spend All they have. Further down the mall you See three 10 year old shepherds with two Labrador's dressed as sheep, a 12 year old Mary and doll siting on a bail of hay with a Vicar and two vergers dressed as a wise men Standing behind with church leaflets, all wearing Covid face masks as shoppers walked past. Back outside frost bitten pigeons looking, Like the homeless man, for crumbs of hope. The sound White Christmas from a saxophone Getting louder as you walk while the smell of Burgers and fast-food invade your nostrils. You walk back to the car park where new Shoppers are arriving, looking for somewhere To park to join the mums with pushchairs or Kids in tow, all joining the thronging crowds as Christmas builds up to its annual crescendo.