There are celebrations coming up...been going on since god’s dog was a pup

The manner in which humans celebrate an

outstanding occasion

Is to focus on an object to mark the situation

The eats and decorations are the way things

are done

There are several outstanding contenders

ranking as #1

If these things are mentioned as shrubs or

saplings, butts and birds

Friends are unable to connect these words

Trees, hogs and birds are the usual choices

You'll hear the puzzlement in all human voices

A shrub or sapling? are you out of your tree

A bird? What sort of bird would that be?

And I think mentioned the butt of a hog?

Surely you joke or are you dense as a log?

Of course with an explanation it becomes

clear

These objects to humans mean holidays

are near

But all these objects have one thing in common

The only way to use em is you have to kill em

I can hear it now as the cry goes around

A tree? You're worried about chopping a tree down?

A tree was alive many years in the ground

It did more good in the forest than the ones chopping it

A place in ecology where it did fit

As for the animals, a pig or bird

Their lives were taken for reasons you've heard

Taking lives to celebrate special days

Proves humanity hasn't yet come out of their caves