Saturday, December 8, 2012

CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN

CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN


CHRISTMAS IS FOR CHILDREN
WE’VE OFTEN HEARD IT SAID

PERHAPS WE’VE SAID IT OURSELVES

IF IT IS
THEN IT MUST BE SOME KIND OF FAIRY TALE
WITH HORROR PORTRAYED AS FANTASY

WE DRESS THE CHILDREN IN COSTUME
AND THINK HOW CUTE

BUT THE REALITY
OF A PREGNANT TEENAGER
WITH THE COCKAMAMIE STORY OF AN ANGEL’S VISIT

HER FIANCEE
HURT
BUT TOO MUCH IN LOVE WITH HER
TO DENOUNCE HER

A BRIGHT MOMENT
WHEN A USELESS CHILDLESS WOMAN
BECOMES PREGNANT

AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY
RULED BY AN IRON MILITANT FIST

A JOBLESS IMMIGRANT
TRYING FOR WORK
WHO CAN’T SPEAK THE LANGUAGE

HOMELESS THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN
LOOKED DOWN UPON BECAUSE OF IT

SOLDIERS ORDERED TO KILL CHILDREN


NO ROOM IN THE INN FOR POOR PEOPLE

SIGNING UP FOR A CENSUS
THAT WILL IMPOSE MORE TAXES

WHILE THE RICH AMASS FORTUNES

WIDOWS CHEATED OUT OF THEIR INHERITANCE

SHEPHERDS
LOOKED DOWN ON
BECAUSE THEY DO NOT OBSERVE SABBATH

SCHOLARS SEEK HIM
WHICH UPSETS KING AND PRIESTS

NOT A CHRISTMAS PAGEANT SHOW
WITH CHILDREN IN BATHROBES

BUT A REALITY SHOW
WHERE MOST OF US LIVE

IT WOULD BE WELL IF THE CHARACTERS
WERE ADULTS
LIVING OUT THEIR ROLES
AS THEY WOULD IN REAL LIFE
PERHAPS A DESTITUTE MAN
LIVING IN A CARDBOARD BOX
WONDERING
WHAT HAPPENED TO GOD’S PLAN

WHY WOULD A SAVIOR COME
TO SUCH A HATEFUL WORLD
THAT CLEARLY DOESN’T WANT HIM

A WORLD THAT’S A DISAPPOINTMENT TO ITS CREATOR
WHY


BUT MY WAYS
ARE NOT YOUR WAYS

FOR IF AN OLD BARREN WOMAN
CAN HAVE A CHILD

THEN THE WORLD CAN HAVE A SAVIOR
WITH LABOR PAINS
BURSTING WITH SEED AND DREAMS
THE DREAMS THAT

THERE WILL NEVER BE HARM
OR WAR ON GOD’S HOLY MOUNTAIN
THAT LION AND LAMB SHALL DWELL PEACEFULLY


AS THE OLD WAYS
GIVE WAY TO THE NEW

CHILDREN IN BATHROBES
WILL LEAD THEM

FRANK A VOLLMER

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