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The whole World is sick in mind, body, spirit, and heart. Our heads ache, our insides churn, our chests pound, our lungs burn, and our b...

Saturday, December 24, 2022

Christmas 1914


A single voice, a Christmas Carol, a song of Stillness and Peace;

Another voice, and many more singing different words to a familiar tune.


Guns stopped, silenced by shared humanity and blended harmonies; peace loudly proclaimed by handshakes, shared smokes, and songs while war stopped for the Eve and Day to celebrate a birth.


Moments out of time; whose were the first voices raised in song, and whose the first gunfire when Day was Done, and why start up again?


Ronda R. Scott-Marak

© 25 December 2019

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