The Promotion Season Needs a Poem ...

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... because this is a tricky season. Not everyone will get a promotion. The folks who get it will spend the next couple of days responding to congratulatory emails and phone calls from their friends spread across the globe. Folks who do not get it, spend the next couple of days writing congratulatory emails to their colleagues spread across the globe who just got promoted. Happy, glad, sad, bad ... all in one season. Others may feel worse than bad about being skipped over and spouses had to bear watching their partners feel worse than bad about not getting that promotion ...it is a happy-sad season ...here is the poem I've been wrestling with for weeks... if only I had Billy Collin's craft...

Promotion Season

Here now comes the promotion seasonPretty much like the flu seasonIt comes bearing aches, once every yearIt comes bearing chills and headaches

Still –

It’s a season you warmly embraceEach year, and you don’t mind at allThe heavy chills and body achesAs long as it gets you on that list

Unlike the flu season there are noShots, no vaccine or codeine to helpGet rid of that bothersome pain, a painThat is worth all if you get on that list

But –

If you do not, well –just rememberYou cannot get it from sneezingOr from kissing and getting depressAbout it won’t make it any easier

Yes –

As A-100 mates embrace the seasonAnd all you get are the snifflesWhy, bear the discomfort within reasonFor each season holds a mission –

Like the flu season, this one won'tHang around like pigeons, but same timeNext year a brand new season returnsOnce more like a born-again inspiration