Hound of Heaven Hymns

Poetry list, Christmas

fault line

christmas lies
on a fault line
it is the crack
in time that
answers the
cry for help
we sing and
dance and
feast and
forget the
offered hand
the thanks
that brings the
warmed heart and
opened mind only
to feel better on
our own terms
and make up
our own
meaning
as we fall
blindly and
joyously into
the abyss
of self–
pre–occupation
and short
term pleasure
forget the
draughty stable
murdered innocents
fleeing family
and splintered
cross
joy and
salvation can
never come
from there
the fault line
never ends