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Christmas Eve
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bishupoetry Biting chill in the winter air welcoming hearts
Warm with feeling of gay abandon... celebration
Midnight Church visitors clad in cozy woolens
Colours of bright rainbow the bright winter sky
Sliver of light hanging in the sky,no strings... the moon
Shop window alive with glittering light, gay colours
Lonely , clad in coarse rags,shivering,begging favours
The beggar's son !!! Why has Christ deprived him ???
Is he not one of Jesus Christ's ardent lovers ?
Agony of Christ--- silently bearing pain on the cross
Who is that stooping bent figure on the street ?
Long beard ,greyed hair, dusty bare feet
Shivering amidst the frolicking humans of today
He's not making merry Christmas.. he's not feeling gay !
The beggar's wife unable to bear the gruelling grind
Left her dearest man looking for a life of another kind
Where is Christ ? Where is Santa Claus ?
Why do their believers suffer such immense loss ?
Loss of a single night of fun living under the same sun
Do these unfortunates not deserve a better lot ?
Strange mystery that they're happy and haven't forgot !!!!
© Bishwanath Mukherjee
