Simple Christmas

I have a wish on Christmas day

not for me but for everybody

a wish for all to be merry

but celebrate in a simple way

As clock ticks and years are fast leaving

Christmas celebrations are changing

from simple one to profit-making

It becomes the way for carousing

So thrilled that people tend to forget

that Christmas is not for sumptuous feast

neither the reason for pricey gifts

It’s Christ who makes the Christmas complete

To rejoice depends on your belief

and it’s not all about the word thrift

perhaps it’s a pleasure for yourself

but Christ came with nothing for Himself

Sure, you have the right to expend  

and. . . we have no right to contend

but if you have the means to spend

let Christ be as the pleasing end 

Belief

Belief can be a bridge or a river

that can connect us or take us apart

can be a rope that would keep us near

or a wall that keeps us at a distant

He reads and sings praises, while you kneel

he bows his head, while you calmly sits

his belief is not what you think and feel

your belief is not within his wits

You have a Pope, while he has a Dalai Lama

he has an Imam, while he has a Rabi

all are leaders and protector of a dogma

the prudent ones that can keep us nearby

Religion, faith, belief or whatever is the term

is one of the things that flares us and keeps us going

it binds certain people but not the world as a team

but oneness can be attained if people stop reproving

Respecting ones faith is all what necessitates

for we all have the freedom to choose our belief

Religion should not be the cause of conflicts

but an equalizer so we can have peace and relief

Facade

You and I in a place of bluntness

where everyone should be honest

You and I in a place of splendor

and everyone should be the best

I say that you can count on me

but my actions say otherwise

I say that I’ll be by your side

but deep inside I’m thinking twice

I dare not stand when I saw you plunged

for I thought it was a simple show 

And I dare not answered when you asked

for I want to keep the things I know

It is easy to say this and that

and promise but hard to shore up

It’s so nice to hear my kindness

but action is better than speak up

I’m a talker, a good persuader

they think that I’m a connoisseur

I say it loud, does it laggardly

they knew not I’m an amateur