Writing Resources from Fifteen Minutes of Fiction
The following is a piece of writing submitted by Douglas on December 25, 2011
"This was written several years ago, in response to a challenge from a friend to write a Christmas song that didn't fit the standard image of a dreamy, snowy white Christmas."
Rainy Christmas
Was it snowy and white on that first Christmas night?Or maybe it was rainy and cold?
Was it calm and serene, like a Hallmark scene?
With halos and love's radiant beams?
A Kodak moment for all the world
To place upon their greeting cards,
But somehow it seems to be an unlikely scene,
With cattle and sheep and a dirty stable yard
Maybe it was raining that night...
Was that holy night a silent night?
With crowds on the Bethlehem streets?
Was the baby's sleep dreamless and deep
Or did he cry like any other child?
A Kodak moment for all the world
To place upon their greeting cards,
But somehow it seems to be an unlikely scene,
With cattle and sheep and a dirty stable yard
Maybe it was raining that night,
Maybe he was crying that night...
Was there peace and joy for that poor little boy,
Fleeing to a faraway land?
For we never sing of that angry king
Who slaughtered all the innocent ones.
A Kodak moment for all the world
To place upon their greeting cards,
But somehow it seems to be an unlikely scene,
With cattle and sheep and a dirty stable yard
Maybe it was raining that night,
Maybe he was crying that night,
Maybe there was death in the air that night...
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