Twas the Night Before Christmas 2015

 

Twas the Night before Christmas

When out in the streets

Not a creature was stirring

Just armed and loaded heat

 

Children were huddled all snug in their beds

While visions of sugar plums dance in their heads

Their parents were huddled away from windows and doors

Ready to hunker down flat on the floor.

 

When out on the lawn their arose such a clatter

Dad eased to the window to see what was the matter

He peered through the blinds with rifle in hand

posting on tiered bags filled with white sand

 

Just then he heard gunfire and saw several flashs

Momma ran upstairs and to the  kids she did dash

and into the bathroom momma and kids cuddled

While behind the sand bags daddy huddled

 

The moon on the breast of the new fallen snow

Gave the luster of midday to the theatre below

After the shots and sirens had disappeared 

Dad saw red spots dotting the snow as he feared

 

On Paris, on Brussels, on Washington DC

On Charleston, on London, on Rome Italy

Fear replaced Joy, Love, Faith and Charity

Everyone Wondered where Christmas could be

 

Santa was watching from the North Pole

Watching CBS, CNN, and everyone's soul

He knew this Christmas required extraordinary means

So he added to the sleigh a few extra Beams

 

On December 24rth  he put things in gear

Filling the sleigh with toys and his peers

As he passed over the areas filled with murder and hate

A Chorus descended from up high on this date

 

The song was a simple one, with voices as one

True Faith doesn't recognize color, gender or guns

It doesn't recognize hate, murder, or war

It only recognizes things that soar

 

Surrounding the sleigh was a Chariot of Gold

and God himself was at the controls

Abraham, Moses, and Jesus were wheels

as was Mohammed, Buddhah, and all that heal

 

The Gita was represented, as was the Humanist and the Sikh

The only common denominator was an adherence to Peace

There were sixteen wheels of every faith

All working in unison all keeping pace

 

Looking ahead to the days that follow

The outcome depends on how many hearts are hallow

For the world evolves on everyone's free will

The battle for those hearts rages still