Juancito
- Juancito, it’s Christmas Eve: here’s fruit cake and a bottle of cider. Celebrate Nativity by your father’s side, village folks will make merry, drinking grape-sherry. There’ll be no talk of sorrow, no work tomorrow, you’ll be absent with my leave. It’s a fine festivity, Juancito!
- Señor, thank you for these gifts but I’ll not take them home. Life is adrift, my Dad roams the land, labouring this Eve on an icy isthmus. Paucity offers scanty shelter, but Dad taught me something better: he says little Jesus was poor like me, He summoned children to Him, so we’ll sing a communal hymn when Dad returns from the distant sea Dad taught me splendid things, memories that help me go on living; that all folks are our brothers, neither riches nor penury make us different from others. We’ll not be unmoved by pain, wars will not harden our hearts: wars are monsters stomping insanely on innocence, on youngsters, on the old and feeble. So tonight I’ll pray for the future, for a change of heart written in the Scriptures.
Our ailing mother will abide by my siblings and I, we’ll hold hands in the summer solstice, fancying peace and justice under angel’s wings. O little Star of Bethlehem, a twinkling miracle in our Southern night sky!
By Psyche
Sylvia Maclagan, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2008.
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
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