These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Santa Claus Village

Hopeful hearts and childlike eyes
love the happy home
of Santa Claus 'neath Christmas skies,
a place to seek and roam.

Rovaniemi in Lapland
is this cheery town,
where great things of childlike plan
joyfully abound.

This is where I hope to go
before I breathe my last
for days of childlike joys to know,
full of hopeful tasks.

I wonder if they have a job
for little boys to do,
for little boys, that age can't rob
from Christmas' daily due.

I think I'd like my last career
to share this village home
to make my life a place, like here,
experiences, a tome.

by Jay O'Toole
on February 19th, 2021