The Sun proudly mounted from behind the mountains Demanding the moon to go home and rest in its own coolness Failing to realize that I briskly woke up way before its rise Impatiently waiting for this inestimable precious day.
A day for which the globe waits Not to vainly look for the inexistent Santa But to make the invisible Christ Visible at heart with transparency.
My feet led my chilly body outside my house For me to admire the beauty of the nature Where the houses are decorated with the color Of the heart of Jesus which is nothing but Snow.
There is a man in front of every house Greeting the people on the street Only to receive no smile on their lips Making him wonder even though he is a Snowman.
I walked along the street as I remembered my night prayer 'Lord, how many more years should I tolerantly wait For your glimpse gorgeous and your smile contagious With the shine in your eyes which brings the same in my eyes? You were so visible then and more invisible now What made your divine form hide from me? Is it due to my sins small or my mistakes big? I'm tired after years 30 of my life to search for you.
I cry and I cry until I decay like hopeless clay People decry and decry seeing me mad for you I neither wish for the riches nor wish for life happy I wish for thee; I wish to feel you in my heart.
My prayer is meant to be answered But never intended to be unobserved You hardly seem to be bothered What makes you feel I'm not deserved?' Drops of water ran down my cheeks It is not the snow which has melted But the outcome of my melted heart Which in all my life I never dealt.
My feet didn't accompany my thought to step ahead And they paved way to a serene alleyway They forced my eyes to look at something deep That kept moving and watching as I moved close.
It is a man but not really a man It was the Snowman that smiled at all With a smile of hope I looked at him To find two moving eyes deep within the snow.
The two little eyes are filled with care They shine like stars bright and bright As the two cute lips joined in pair To be seen by me and to smile at me.
It is now that my eyes are filled with the shine As they saw my Christ in the snowman It is now that my heart is solaced and fine As it felt the selfless and incessant love of a kind.
What Thanks can I render Christ? For the glimpse thou had graced on me Every day I will blossom in your love and light Not one day I will live a life of hopeless night.
You give the love of thousand mothers You give the care of thousand fathers You impart the knowledge of thousand teachers Your ways chosen are innumerable; your ways chosen are inexplicable What words can I say Christ Than to wish you 'Happy Birthday' On this Day of 'Merry Christmas' Than to live and love you? "Have faith in your hopes that you will one day meet the Lord you waited and lived for.
That is your real Christmas.
"- Sharmila Sanka