Christmas is here

And it is the dawn of a new day

That shall witness

The rejuvenation of the multitude

Whose life has been

A calligraphy of agony

And a mosaic of misery

Christmas is here

And it is the birth of a new hope

That will illumine the portal of death

Dispelling the hovering cloud of despair

Over those who hunger for truth

And thirst for justice.

We have indeed been vacillating

Between fragments of reality

And elements of absurdity

And in our refracted vision

We have seen our toil and tears

Intermingling

In the cesspool of shame

That we call home

Yes, it has been a protracted night

Of fruitless toil and un-assuaged grief

In the fractured perspectives

Of a marginal existence

That we call life.

But behold Christmas is here

Heralding a sudden twist in fate

For those who gracefully sowed their tears

A change in fortune

For those who faithfully

Invested their sorrows

In the mysterious hand

Of the Tremendous Lover

I can see the Sun of the new vision

Peering through the horizon

With the message etched in gold

That the time is near

For those who toiled in tears

To reap a harvest of joy

That our grieves and anxieties

Shall not end up

In the ocean of decay

And that our pool of tears

Is a valuable resource

Which shall soon be transformed

Into an oasis of fortune

This is my Christmas hope!

                  ---Fr. George Ehusani