Because You Descended to This World

 

Because you descended to this world

A magic has touched this land;

An unexpected embrace has warmed me

I’m blessed by an unknown hand!

The parish church wears a starry robe

Outside there runs a fun- filled fair;

The stable  cribs on the street side

Raise higher the Christmas air.

Festive  food and drinks abound

And every family has a X-mas cake;

Believers and non-believers all

Whereof are thrilled to partake.

What’s divine and deeper this season

Human hearts are renewed in power;

To forgive and receive forgiveness

Blessing from above fall in shower.

The  weak have grown in strength

Lord, because of  your humble birth;

The unloved are loved in abundance

To the lengths and breaths of the earth.

A miracle is unfolding in my sight

In my very home near and around;

Lord, how can I render you thanks

for the grace wherewith  you  surround.

Xavier Bage

Sat, Dec 30, 2017.

Two Days to Christmas

Two days to Christmas I look within

And around me. What a sight!

I am tattered and torn

How I’ll present myself to my Lord

At His nativity night?

On my soul I carry many a sin

The ailments that have defied cure

Unremitted  and unforgiven

Hurting every moment of living

Like my pauper poverty they endure!

The dignity of minimum joys will I gain?

The wishes of my longing sighs?

It’s going to be evening soon

The daylight is fast diminishing

But the stars are hidden behind skies.

“Surrender,” whispers a voice from the manger

Where on dry hay the infant is laid

The mother  the handmaid on its side

And the father standing on their service

“Easy  for myself couldn’t have I made?”

Xavier Bage 

Fri, 22 Dec 2017

Torches of the Free Word

Why bow to a god shaped by hands

Why worship an idol made of clay?

It is you who placed the baked calf

On the majestic pedestal so high

From where it can only command

People of the land distant and nigh

And you prostrate to the profanity

Is it people’s rule or child’s play?

You are hallowed heralds of liberty

You are the torches of free word

What a shame, you have offered

Your life’s ideals to your idol lord

You devotees of the true and unseen

Why let your mind walk a mindless way?

Who should I trust in tumultuous world?

Whose voice must speak to enlighten?

Who’ll lead us in courage and wisdom?

When violent hands around us frighten?

Who will be a lamp till the break of day?

Xavier Bage

Wed, Dec  06, 2017

Colored Goggles

 

Don’t we see through colored glasses

And group the world in false classes!

Wear goggles of green

And everything looks green

Wear red glasses the world looks red

Foolish we are to accept it to be real

A colored world that we have created!

Dry hay for green grass passes!

Why don’t we want to observe

The truth and the truth to serve ?

When phenomenon invites us to perceive

With eyes freed of colored goggles

Should we prefer ourselves to deceive?

And to labyrinths mislead the masses!

Xavier Bage

Mon, Dec 04, 2017

Is Everything Fair in Love and War?

                






             


                Is the well known saying sound

That everything is fair in love and war?

Perhaps in war it holds water

when you are out to vanquish

and eliminate your enemy

There isn’t any moral bar!

So it goes in pseudo democratic combats

You battle to rob victory in the election

And trample your enemy

By all means, fair or foul

And seat yourself on the throne

No defect of yours is held dereliction!

Is it true in the realm of love,

Where self-sacrifice is the norm?

You never will injure the beloved;

Never wish the harm of the one you love

You desire victory and glory for the other

No, love assumes never a selfish form!

No, love is not envious of the other

Love is never cruel, love is kind

It doesn’t find faults and condemn

Its forgives and blesses even the foe

Oh, love can never be clubbed with war

In love, the very Godhead you find!

Xavier Bage

Fri, Dec 01, 2017