Clowns

This is usually posted on Twitter each Christmas. This year it is posted on Patch:

One day a clown car drove up to a church. Clown after clown after clown got out and went in. Clown after clown after clown went inside an prayed.

One clown said, “Please, God, bring me some laughs.”

One clown said, “Please, God, I need some new gaffs.”

One clown said, “Please, God, a new nose I could use.”

And one clown said, “Thanks, Lord, for my big, floppy shoes.”

One clown said, “God, if I only were funnier...”

One clown said, “God, make my act sunnier.”

One clown said, “Lord, these big, floppy shoes,

If it be Your will, in Your service use.”

And one clown got big laughs because he was funnier.

And one clown got new gaffs that made his act sunnier.

And one clown got more noses than ever he’d use.

And one clown still had just his big, floppy shoes.

And one day one clown coming home from the show

Met one man with one shoe alone in the snow.

And try as he might, and though he was funnier,

He made one man’s day not one little bit sunnier.

One day later, one clown, along the same route,

Encountered one man, wearing one boot.

And gaff after gaff after gaff after gaff

Brought from the one man not even one laugh.

And on the third day, one clown did walk by,

And offered his shoes for the one man to try.

The shoes sure looked silly, but they kept two feet warm.

And one clown went barefoot, whene’er he’d perform.

Yet one clown’s show was now so much funnier.

And thousands of lives were made one little bit sunnier.

Though one clown was now missing one gaff,

One clown found he could still make them laugh.

And after the show, from the crowd came one man.

While wearing one smile, He extended two hands.

With His warm embrace, He promised Good News.

And then Jesus said, “Thanks for your big, floppy shoes.”

Poem copyright 2017 by eye95.