Bethlehem Beseiged

Bethlehem besieged in this season of good cheer. Check points are imposed on ragged strangers who have to flee from bombing. Even Mary and Joseph found refuge in a crude stable.The stars were bright that night. Now they're dead. Still- born babies are the norm not the exception. Children's bodies lie lifeless among the rubble. Any protestors are gunned down without mercy. The dark thieves of holiness are now burying the Light. They are mowing lawns; cutting the heads off daisies. No spring flowers of hope grow amongst the rubble. And empty suits have nothing purposeful to say. Western - backed pogroms pounce on the dispossessed. That alas, my friends, is a fact.