Passing Christmas Lights : A Reprise.

Passing colors glowing, tinsel hung high 

Christmas lights, shimmering and sparkling
The smell of food, enticing on tongue
Another world lingers though
A different reality resides
In the corner of our eyes.
Beyond the tragedy of hunger
The waste of consumerism
Austerity that daily bites.

For some now the air drips with sadness
As the cold season blows again
People on long and tiresome journeys 

Drifting among thrift stores
Food banks and charity shops
As the sky above turns dark and grey
Citizens left wanting, running on empty
Struggling on, feeding on misery and decay.

Genocide and torture, fucking others lands

The horrors and massacres daily now unfurled

War crimes that can't be disputed

Political enablers, pouring petrol on the fire

Extreme weather, drowning coastlines

Sweet winter, dusted with calamity

Despite it  all, Christmas songs play on

People find illusion to escape the bleakness.  

Perhaps some small acts of kindness

will be sufficient to keep some gladness alight
Against buffeting winds, strength can grow

Stop the endless bombing, a land dripping with blood
Allow people of gaza to decorate hearts with hope
Fill glasses full of compassion instead of fear
With little things, perhaps time will heal

Abandon the past, infiltrate the future 
Share some sustenance of survival.