Temptation

I lay awake for long enough to hear 
the start of the show that proudly commemorated 
the establishment of the Dominion of Canada 
in ’67 of a century past. 
Though the 132nd anniversary 
of my home country’s founding as a nation
was not of particular note at first glance, 
there was a sadness to be found on that 
specific day if one looked hard enough: 
it marked our final national holiday 
of the twentieth century and of the second millennium,
relative to the alleged birth of Christ 
as per the opinion of Dionysius Exiguus.