<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577689" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Peace of Christmas</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This fully spirited rendition<br>Of tranquilizers, <br>Packaged by innocence—in a manger, <br>In a manger, <br>Has surprised the hungry and the angry with peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But down the road in years ahead, <br>Mary Magdalene waits, <br>With many heads, <br>That will settle <br>For peace not dreamed of; <br>Yet cares less who cares, <br>And would follow her new-found dream<br>To view a Roman cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As for today, Father Christmas<br>Has chosen to be a toy<br>To countless children—a celebrity god; <br>Tantalizing them with gifts—not in a manger, <br>Not in a manger, <br>But packaged with superficiality<br>For the anger sleeping in hunger, <br>In ambivalence of ambience.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Accept my offer of<br>The peace of Christmas—not on a platter, <br>Not on a platter, <br>Neither packaged in the superfluity of moments<br>But the simplicity of purposeful humanity; <br>To be sung by shepherds<br>Who longed for morning light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The peace of Christmas.<br>The peace of Christmas.<br>The peace of Christmas.<br>The peace of Christmas.<br>The peace of Christmas.<br>The peace of Christmas.<br>The peace of Christmas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Moses+Kainwo">Moses Kainwo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577689" data-title="The Peace of Christmas de Moses Kainwo" data-description="This fully spirited rendition Of tranquilizers, Packaged by innocence—in a manger, In a manger, Has surprised the hungry and the angry with peace. But down the road in years ahead, Mary Magdalene waits, With many heads, That will settle ..."></div> </div> </div>

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