It’s Christmas every time…

It’s Christmas every time

an embrace opens up

from the rigid shell of the Earth

to reject wars.

It’s the kindness that gently wraps around you

like a ray of sunshine resting upon the heart.

It’s Christmas every time you

choose to extend a hand,

to dissolve hatred,

to make a smile bloom.

It’s Christmas every time you

listen to the other,

understand their suffering,

sing their melody when they have lost their words, their emotions,

share in their regained joy.

It’s Christmas every time you

reject indifference

and move forward determined to change your existence.

Even in the midst of hatred, of war,

your essence becomes presence,

it’s an act of love,

hope, a prelude to peace.

The true Christmas

is in the humanity that moves forward, that loves, that welcomes,

it’s the light of a starlit night

that illuminates the path.