JUST SHARING
A Journey to Bethlehem on Advent Sunday
Saturday 1st December 2012 World Aids Day
10th December Human Rights Day
Thoughts on receiving mailings from SCIAF, Jubilee Debt Campaign, IMANI Development Foundation
and Fair Trade
‘a cold coming they had of it……’

JUST SHARING
To share or not to share
that is the question
haunting rich and poor alike
down the years and days
of ordinary anxious lives
hesitating beneath the arches
of suburbia
shadowing the old man
with the worn-out shoes
and the cloth cap of the busker
aimlessly plucking the strings
of a gutless guitar on the streets
of megalopolis
around the global village
from
Lime Street station to Time Square
while
the unhesitating sightless timeless
gaze of Teiresias
the blind prophet of Thebes
looks longingly into the darkness
of the millennium resolution’s
bankrupt promises littering
the corridors of power
whose plastic smiles
betray the confidence
of a waiting world
incredible in India
exasperated in Greece
desperate in Africa
dying in Syria
forlorn in Gaza
stuttering in China
uneasy in Spain
resigned in Italy
edgy in Europe
perplexed in Rwanda
amidst the money men
still making money
hand over fist
without any handovers
to investors
or
to
the
poor
who
are
always
with
us
crouching
with
baby
Jesus
 behind
the
Bethlehem
wall