Christmas
Anticipation,
Beginning of hope...
Drowned in the voices,
ad confused noise
Sarcasm screams
and steals,
Killing the thinking 
curious
questions lost.

No different today
to the first time,
Cold power feeling threatened,
iron fist desperately speaking
commands of death,
Babies killed,
A fearful human king 
trying to kill the true king.

Doubters emerged, 
frozen religious thinking
denying the king
His claims on their life,
Liars advertising 
Their version of truth 101.

Jesus,
Human frailty embraced
as a baby,
He stands 
perfect in time
Alive after death,
He saves
Hopeless and hopeful
Anyone who comes.

Maybe that's why
Jesus said, "Come as a child."
Before those mind manipulations,
before games acted
before playmaking,
Just come as you are,
who you are
No matter where
you are from,
Where you sit.

The birth of hope
Alive after sacrifice
Love extreme
loves you
embraces you
knows you
sees you.


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Prompt
Christmas combines death of the innocents with a baby in a manger. How will you complete your Christmas?