Joban spins down the track
careening headlong on past
incessant street lights
propped up holiday sights
some Christmas illumination at last

so strange to see such
non-traditional sights
so familiar at home
yet not here where I've roamed
all these Christmas decorations and lights

Its popularity increasing
with every year that goes by
the lights and the tree
Santa laughing with glee
every Christmas thing money can buy

Yet there's some key ingredient missing
from this half-baked Christmas recipe
a spirit or reason
the key to the season
that I experienced across the sea

So what will become of this Christmas
all the concrete and railways and cars
filled with people I fear
know of naught but New Year
as if Christmas were imported from Mars

And what about you now this Christmas
stranger and foreigner here
will you ride the New Year high
passing Christmas on by,
or will you create your own Christmas cheer?