ramblings and things
A Modern Nativity
No shepherds or Kings
At this modern Christmas birth
No massed choirs of angels
Singing of Peace on Earth.
No symbolic manger,
No Frankincense and Myrrh,
Just two haggard parents
To give love and tender care.
This the same Holy Land
Two thousand years on,
Two thousand years,
Twenty centuries come and gone,
And this miracle happens
In a shrinking Palestine,
Under economic sanctions from
A regime both cruel and asinine.
A child that will live and grow
And suffer and learn to hate
Because of the actions
Of a more advanced rogue state.
The pilgrims will flock
To this so called Holy Land,
In I'm sure sincere and
Devout worshipful bands
But the money changers again
Are back in the temples of this state
And rather than love and peace
The whole is ruled by hate.
The shepherds and Kings
Should they again travel there
This time I think would weep
From pity and despair.
No massed choirs of angels
Singing of Peace on Earth.
No shepherds or Kings
At this modern Christmas birth.
Modern Nativity ii