ON CHRISTMAS DAY

In the pain-filled places

of Sudan and Syria:

beneath the penthouses of  Manhattan:

by the paddy fields of South India:

through down-town San Paulo,

and on our streets

there are lights of hope

often dimmed,

yet still burning.

They are

the lights of Christmas

in a world

both linked and disconnected,

inviting us home

to that place

where Love shines bright

and where, amazingly,

our broken lives

are again made whole.

                      Peter Millar, Edinburgh, Scotland, Christmas Day 2013.
 
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