PEACE CHILD, LOVE CHILD
 
I want to be the Christ Child today
 wrapped in swaddling, cozy in a manger
 Star of Bethlehem rising in the night
 warmed by the love of Mother Mary and
 Joseph with his staff, smiling upon me.
 
I want to be innocent.
 I want to be selfish.
 I want to return
 to the Purity of childhood.
 
Please.
 
I have had enough of heartbreak,
 I have seen enough death and destruction
 starvation and calamity to last millions
 of incarnations.
 
Please.
 
Give me grace, oh Lord.
 
I pray to the four winds,
 I fall on my knees,
 I bow, I say Namaste,
 I pray with my folded hands,
 I raise my open palms to the level of my shoulders,
 I look for a hole in the wall to lay my wailing on.
 
Please.
 Let me laugh again.
 
Please return me to the Love
 of a Child...