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A Visit From Santa

12/29/2019

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🎅🏻Synopsis: Once again, a jolly old elf gives investors the gift
that keeps on giving. Believe it!
‘Twas the week after Christmas
Two-thousand and nineteen,
The bears were seeing red
The bulls counting up their green.
 
 🎁
The stockings were emptied
And the tree stripped bare,
In hopes the recycling truck
Soon would be there.

 🎁 
When out in the garage
I heard such a din,
I sprang from the couch
and banged the table with my shin.
 
 🎁
My curses and cries
Rang out through the walls,
As I opened the door and exclaimed
“Well, deck my halls!”
 
 🎁
For there in the cold gray garage
And the fading wintery light,
Stood that jolly old elf of yore,
A most delightful, welcome sight.
 
 🎁
‘Midst the strings of lights and ornaments
all bound up for the attic,
He stroked at his beard and laughed
Finding mirth at my look of panic.

 🎁 
Still dressed all in red
and a bit more portly than last year,
I forgot about my aching leg
and invited him in for a beer.

 🎁 
He smiled and begged off
“In truth, I’m in a hurry....
I just dropped in to check up on
your investor’s wall of worry.”

 🎁 
“Santa,” I gushed,
“you seem to have cured all,
Not much remains of all those worries
that I wrote about just this Fall!

 🎁 
Clients are all quite jolly
pleased with 2019’s return!”
Then he arched a snowy white eyebrow and sighed
“When will you ever learn?

 🎁 
The past is but a memory
The present fading fast,
You must focus on tomorrow
And know that nothing ever lasts!

 🎁 
There’s no sneak preview like George Bailey,
or crystal ball for us to see,
There is no ghost of Christmas future
no one to show us what will be.

 🎁 
It’s the long term that matters,
keep your clients on their path,
That’s the gift that keeps on giving,
and it doesn’t require advanced math.”

 🎁 
He backed away quick
Said the last with a snicker,
Then opened the garage door
With a press of the clicker.

 🎁 
And out into the night
The old elf he departed,
A guru so wise...
An advisor so big-hearted!

 🎁 
And I heard him exclaim
As he sprung to his reindeer,
Above the clanging of his sleigh bells
“Don’t give in to your fears!
 
 🎁
Markets will rise,” he exclaimed
“And sometimes they will fall,
That’s how it has ever been...
A history lesson for us all.”
 
Photo: Authors Collection
Links & Sources:
  1. https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/visit-st-nicholas
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