The Post-Modern Christmas
The Post-Modern Christmas
A ray of hope no longer flickers in the breeze
Lives are trampled and flattened in a whirlwind of despair
Where a tiny star once lit up way up high
A bullhorn tells people to disperse in the street
All across the land dawns an everlasting night
This comes to pass when a child is forgotten.
Billions of silent wishes drown in the Seven Seas
The guns of change make deserts of the trees
And the walls of doubt soar above the clouds
This comes to pass when a child is forgotten.
That rosy hue is replaced by stains of blood
You got the feel the ground collapses under your feet
With spells of darkness everyone feels forlorn
This comes to pass when a child is forgotten.
And all of this happens because the world has turned its back
on this one child; Black-white-yellow, no one cares…
They’ll shoot you when you’ve got your hands in the air
Laughter drowns submerged in a valley of tears
Love to hate, peace to war and everyone becomes everyone’s enemy
And misery and suffering are the only words left in the dictionary.
It’s all a reality now
It is the one truth eternal for our time
All across the land dawns an everlasting night
This comes to pass when a child is forgotten.
-A poetic response to the Christmas song When A Child Is Born
-describing the state of the world at Christmas 2014.
-written by Christopher
Sunday December 14th
2014.
sherrieonthoughtsjournal said,
January 1, 2015 at 8:47 am
Wow, this is a very good writing on such, Chris. There is not much anymore of the good things about any child to be born into this world, is it? The world is not longer a safe place to be for anyone of us …
draculvanhelsing said,
January 3, 2015 at 3:41 am
Thanks, Sherrie. 🙂
No sadly the world is no longer a safe place for any of us.
Particularly when the world forgets the child born in Bethlehem.