It was a cold day in December<\/p>\n
Then we visit relative for Christmas food<\/p>\n
Granny, a hypocrite do-gooder<\/p>\n
Holds her smile with a glassy smirk<\/p>\n
Plastered on her face<\/p>\n
With a mischievous hide up her behind<\/p>\n
“I love you” was her code for<\/p>\n
“I hate you”<\/p>\n
There’s a thin line between love and hate, They say<\/p>\n
But for granny, it’s a very thick line<\/p>\n
All this we knew, checking her closet<\/p>\n
When she died<\/p>\n
She had loads of voodoo and charms<\/p>\n
Flaked on her wall and ceiling<\/p>\n
A skull rocking the center of her closet<\/p>\n
In such, it was her shrined cult room<\/p>\n
A room she warned us not to enter<\/p>\n
Unless we want the police on our tail<\/p>\n
What did we know,<\/p>\n
She even attends church<\/p>\n
She claps her hands in rhythm<\/p>\n
To the choir singing from the hymnal<\/p>\n
I’m glad she died that night in December<\/p>\n
She could have gathered more skulls<\/p>\n
But I guess<\/p>\n
God didn’t want us in the bargain<\/p>\n
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