I)Love
God’s miraculous work
Designed Almighty-man
Love loud to talk
Resides in
The Incarnated Word’s
Sky- to-earth
Coming down
And His birth
In Bethlehem town
To lead life
Putting on
A human flesh
And gown.
II) Truce
What is more?
God wanted to restore
With man amity
As per His
Forgiving identity.
III) Humbleness
Christ was
Born in a barn
“Avoid egotism!”
Us to warn.
IV)Peace
Than yourself love
Your neighbor better,
Because this way
The world for inhabiting
Would be comfier.
Envoy
If the Aforementioned virtues
We’re supposed
To emulate
How failed we
For one another
To strike out from
Our hearts hate?
How failed we
To stop worldwide
The flowing of
The innocents’ blood
Like flood?
How failed we
To display modesty
True to Christ’s
Defining identity?
If peace
Is the oxygen
We breathe,
How failed we on
Nonviolent coexistence
To cut our teeth?
How failed we,
With accountability,
Going half way
“Let us bury
The hatchet!”
To our labelled foe say?
BY ALEM HAILU G/KRISTOS
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD FRIDAY 5 JANUARY 2024
