"Silent Night, Holy Night..." But not for all...

So the Christmas is coming closer and with it the anxiety of all those children living in emotional and economical misery...

The Holy Night is not for those children whose parents are getting drunk and fight in some kind of missunderstood celebration, where those children who don't become abused themselves are the lucky ones...
The Holy Night is not for those children who can not eat themselves fill, this festival, when so many others are eating themselves sick
The Holy Night is not for those children whose parents cannot afford a single present when other children are drowning in theirs

The Holy Night is simply Not for the " Barefoot Children"

I have tried to translate a poem, I wrote last year, into English. A desperate way to try to illuminate the situation in Christmas time, for these children
If you see these children better then my linguistic errors, I`m pleased *smile*

Silent Night, Holy Night

But not for children in total despair
Longing only for a world that is fair
Watching the star in the peak of the three
While dreaming light-year away to be free

There are no connection between Christmas and peace
For all those who don´t owe a familiar ease
The holy night is covered up with sorrow
And the child just waiting for a better “tomorrow

Waiting for the night to grow light
Days that will turn from black into white
The child is sleeping in the crib of straw
Untouched by a protecting Law

Three vice-man in the desert were coming
All caring gifts, presents and a beautiful thing
Prepared to give to the newborn king
Who this night the world was given

No lefts over for the children of today
Which cannot benefit what the laws say
And the light from the star that guided the there
Don’t shine for those which no longer can see.

In a dejected darkness where the stars died down
There are nothing but fear in the black hole thrown
A temporary forgetfulness spread its covering around
the children of the world and their unhealed wounds

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Comment by gunilla caisson on December 12, 2009 at 12:19am: Yes...So it is ...for so many children...A Hell.... Any many carry that hell with them all their lives...
Have we done what we could for them? That question will always scare me...

Comment by gunilla caisson on December 3, 2009 at 5:06pm: I feel in the same way Garry...I wish I could create a really " Merry Christmas" for them all...but as you say we try to help where we can..
Thank you...for appreciating my poem, for having seen more then just bad English ...*smile*

Comment by Garry Driehuizen on December 3, 2009 at 4:57pm: Thank u Gunilla for sharing this beautiful poem and u are right I almost feel ashamed of my happy life with all our abundance. We help where we can, Namaste, Garry

Comment by gunilla caisson on December 2, 2009 at 11:46pm: Danke mutsch55 vor haben versteht was i sagen wollte und für Ihre Hilfe für Menschen in Not.
Christmas shows us who in the western world are in most need of our support..... the misery became so obvious...

Comment by mutsch55 on December 2, 2009 at 10:40pm: It is true in many of Gunilla, it is a horror when I see us in Saalfeld,
that many a child to be sad Christmas on.The parents have no money and do not know how to put your child something lower fir, but will not waste so many money to good for your child.
We have formed a group with us, where we give away what we do not need.
Since we hope that much together kommt.Da it with us and there are many Hartz4 receiver front and back is not enough, where I include myself fall.
And if I hear because of floods and war and do not know where they will sleep a lot, it makes me sad.

Comment by gunilla caisson on December 2, 2009 at 10:37pm: To gcoo106. You are so painfully right...
This coming holiday when we celebrate I can feel more than ever their pain...

Comment by gcool06 on December 2, 2009 at 10:22pm: it is sad... but true. :( children bear the worst of difficult family situations, fight so many of the wars and are the least equipped to deal with any of it. it's a cycle- they will learn to imitate what they see. what will we show them?