Grown-ups missing Santa

A generous old man
adept, and deft at giving secret gifts:
morphed to foster expectations
of presents as befits
the average monthly purse
of each locale
(why can’t I ask to get a horse?
that would be greedy, child, of course);
does disillusionment bequeath a void?
There is a Watcher truely kind who gifts can still provide,
who knows we are not good each day
– has gift for that –, and glad to hear us ask and pray,
but (unlike Santa) also likes to hear us say
‘Thank you’ and ‘please close by me stay
when troubles suddenly come in my way’.