Christmas Candles

In frigid grip of winter cold and oppressing darkness of the night thunder sounds as armies clash candles yet flicker bright Tyrants in their power seek to distract from problems wrong turn the people to thoughts of war in the hope they’ll then unite gather rally to his cause and his banner will they raise and forget their dismay from their lives of day to day they cannot see nor do they hear of the war so far away just his words do they hear as he proclaims his righteous war long ago an Army crushed distant people in their lands to seize their freedoms and the joy and proclaims their tyrants name yet their spirit could not be crushed nor their hope be seized away while their breath they did draw they did resist with their might in dark of night or winter cold far from the palaces where tyrants reign spirit cannot be crushed away as flickers still candles bright