Christmas Reminder

Published on December 14, 2005 By stevendedalus In Current Events

The Seasonal Message is prayer

For the starving child of Zaire

And others threatened elsewhere.

The child is sorrowfully dispensable

By those who are struck insensible,

Which in faith is incomprehensible.

Remorseless leaders dismiss the meaning of the Manger—

So conditioned by the faceless moneychanger.

Who but the Infant Jesus cries out the danger

As flies hover to lay eggs on a tiny stranger?

Begone callous disregard for children everywhere!

Away demonic flies—nest with power’s warfare!

The Season frames the scene unfair:

We clear indifference to focus and atone—

A child as close in spirit as flesh in our own,

Obliges us to concede the genocidal gravestone.

Beseech the world embrace

Rather than debase

The world’s forgotten child

Who, from conscience exiled,

Is woefully defiled.

Comments

on Dec 22, 2005

Should I have titled this Disruptive Holiday Reminder?

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