Take this image from my head.
So many children, blown up, dead.
Don't know why it weighs on me,
I close my eyes yet can't get free.
It's Christmas, peace on earth,
Happy kids, in funeral dearth,
march along with sugar plums,
in cadent step with fife and drums.
Ornaments on yuletide glee,
asleep in front of numb TV.
Blood drips down the Christmas tree.
Ho, Ho, Ho,
No, No, NO!
Christmas bloody Christmas,
Merry jolly Christmas.
No place to run,
No place to go,
Peace on earth,
nothing to show.
Thinking must be only me?
Do what I can, but just can't be,...
the one who saves everything.
People have to hear,...
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May the people on this planet be changed.
Changed from hatred to love,
Changed from greed to giving,
Changed from selfishness to selflessness,
Changed from apathy to action,
Changed from jealousy to joy over someone's accomplishments,
Changed from intolerance to acceptance,
Changed from being destructive to being constructive,
Changed from fighting to peace,
Changed from killing to protecting life,
Changed from censorship to freedom,
Changed from ignorance to education,
Changed from fearing our differences to rejoicing our variety.
May we each take it upon ourselves to feed the hungry, cure the sick,
house the homeless, educate
I'll always be there,...
Like the shadow cast from a lullaby sung from the heart.
The tune will come to mind from nowhere,
You'll be singing it all day long,
Then it will vanish again until the next event brings it to mind.
I'm an old dusty book that was put on a shelf.
Haven't been read in a while.
You'll be cleaning and I'll come into your grasp.
You glance at a few pages and remember fondly.
Then back I go till the next time.
I want to be the necklace worn around your neck.
The diamond pendant that you take between your fingers
when you think those thoughts from the heart.
Always with you, priceless, but not monetarily.
Alw