A Christmas Message

A Christmas Message

As ice clings to trees

We cling to our traditions.

Like sentinels marking time

Year to year our traditions hold.

Peace and love the season’s message

Seems so far from our ears today.

For in this world of words spread like fire

Sadness arrives the media way!

So turn your head away from terror

From hate, prejudice, ignorance and fear.

Turn instead to the quite message

Of Peace on Earth this 2015^th year.

Words

Words

Words are such a sacred thing

To poets, priests, and sovereign kings

Of Romance born to man and wife

That later cause domestic strife

To children fall the pain and woe

As they listen to words in anger thrown

To cease the pain they run and hide

They cry with no one by their side

If loves sweet words are thrown so light

Allowed to fester in the night

The child will see through vacant eyes

A world that has proved love a lie