Christmas is Near!

Christmas Comes Just Once a Year!
© Shadi Shidrawi


Ready, steady,  go
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But how to let it go,
Is it because Chronic remorse, 
when you listen 
"If you have behaved badly,
"On no account brood over your wrongdoing.
"You say you care
Christmas is near 
a child is born 
a child is born 
Is your Christmas the same as mine?
Hark the herald angels sing
Who took the event 
Christmas,
Christmas is near 
Christmas is near 

back to the old drawing board
Christmas is near
and the heart is kicking

post 
revel
leave an impression 
receive one
and let it go

when voices 
around Christmas time
echo in the silence 
of your head!

as all the moralists have agreed, 
is a most undesirable sentiment?

just around this time of year
the voices would
sound  like that:

then make what amends you can
and address yourself to the task
of behaving better next time."

Rolling in the muck is not 
the best way of getting clean."

But you don't!
That's why you're not here but there.
You said you'd change but you won't,
but still you can make a difference. "

and the heart is kicking 
frolicking 
sharing
back to the old drawing board:

to save the world.
yet the world doesn't
want to be saved

to bring them peace
yet this world 
stays at wars.

a light, a manger and a King?
sharing with compassion
a cladding of good deeds?

Glory to the new born King
A King of kings.
The lamb of God! 

out of its joy?
just made it a tinker toy?

an ode to joy,
where one humble gesture from God
made it the biggest miracle
to all human kind.

and the heart is kicking 
frolicking 
sharing
back to the old drawing board

and the heart is kicking 
frolicking 
sharing
back to the old drawing board.

back to the old drawing board.