A merry xmas and a happy new year to you all. Here's a poem composed to accompany this. Happy reading if you do! R

Share the Hope

Goodwill, by people to others,
Is crystal clear when it's on show.
Peace sweeps the dim fog that smothers
And blinds warring souls to its glow.
Joy is radiant and infects those
On whom it casts its brilliant sheen.
But what of Hope? Can we suppose
That it too can always be seen?

Alas, too often Hope's a spark
Shaded by shrouds of Doubt and Shame
Which with age wax thick in the dark.
And stop Hope blazing like the flame
Which at Christmas shines through the eyes
Of children to whom Doubt's unknown.
Their Hopes flare high above the skies
To wane, alas, when they are grown.

What if this Christmas, Doubt and Shame,
We suspend and instead lay bare
And stoke our Hopes till they're aflame
And spread like fire for all to share?