A Christmas Hope

Christmas time this year

Comes at the tail of a rather sad year

Many terrible things have happened

And too many of us have lost those we held dear

We have seen bloodshed and violence

Caused by acts of cowardice

We have felt the earth shake

And rocks crumble and break

Waters swelled, the air turned poison

Yet despite all, to carols we still listen

In one more leap of faith

Come this time we still celebrate

Yes we still celebrate

To honour those who could not

Celebrate to show triumph

That hope we’ve still got

For the hope that Christmas brings

Came two thousand years ago

And against such miraculous hope

Modern horrors have no hold

So we will light our streets

And we will deck our halls

We will come in spite of fear

When the church bell calls

And come Christmas Day

Despite the horrors that have come to past

We will grow that hope’s eternal flame

Against which fear’s darkness cannot last

In memory to all who have left us, and a blessed Christmas to those who remain

Immanuel, God is with us

Copyright © 2015 by Kwek Yi Zhen

Originally from: http://poemsforocassions.blogspot.com/2015/12/a-christmas-hope.html

Christmas' Song

Oh rejoice it is Christmas!

The brightest day of the year

Even if not apparent in the sky

Our hearts are filled with cheer!

There is a song in the air

It has been singing since the morn

Can you hear what it is saying?

That the Savior is born!

Oh it is a grand old song

That has been played for thousands of years

But on Christmas day

Is when it seems near

It is a song that fills my heart

That adds a spring in my step

A joy that can’t be torn apart

That for a year has slept

This song that rises through the air

And fills the hearts of men

Seeks out their hurts and then

Slowly helps them mend

This joy that makes one want to sing

To jump into the sky and take wing

This is the joy of the Christmas morn

It is the joy that the Savior is born!

This is what makes Christmas Christmas

More than any Christmas tree

More than a truck load of presents

Tucked under the tree

More than traditions and dinners

And laughter with family

Not that these aren't important

But none can make me as happy

As the joy

That my Savior's birth has given

That one day soon

We will be with him in heaven

And that thanks to his gift

We shall never be apart

And for that Christmas’s joy

Shall ever be in my heart!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Copyright © 2014 by Kwek Yi Zhen

Originally from: http://poemsforocassions.blogspot.com/2014/12/christmass-song.html

Why Christmas

You and I weren’t there

On that first Christmas night

We heard no song, no baby’s cry

Didn’t even see the star’s light

Yet we celebrate Christmas

So many years later

About two thousand years

If I correctly remember

Why? We may well ask

It was so long ago

Why celebrate something

And celebrate so much so?

“Presents”

The youngest of us would say

And Santa Claus and Rudolph

In their merry sled

“Family”

The more elder of us would reply

To meet again with our loved ones

To chat beyond more than “Hi”

“Food”

I can almost hear

My more mischievous friends saying

Then secretly shaking their heads saying it’s fattening

But why? Truly why?

Christmas was always so much more

Presents, food and family

That can’t be all

I think it is the same reason

The angels sang that night

And three kings came visiting

Following the star light

It was because unseen by most

Asleep in the hay

God made into man

Our saviour lay

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Copyright © 2013 by Kwek Yi Zhen

Originally from: http://poemsforocassions.blogspot.com/2013/12/why-christmas.html