Letters to the Editor

Homeless Night Before Christmas

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Editor, News-Register:

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the streets

Many were hovering under tiny tents made of sheets

The homeless were curled up on the cold hard ground

Neither a warm meal nor pillow for their heads to be found

No stockings are hung by a chimney with care

Besides a few items their homemade tents are bare

No bright lights twinkle on a Christmas tree

Just a glimmer of moonlight through a tear, I see

What they would give for a mere Christmas blessing

Rather than lying alone in the cold, trembling

So, for those of us warm and snug in our bed this Christmas Eve

Please say a prayer for those less fortunate to get a reprieve

As all of God's children, at this holiest of seasons

All are deserving of the same Christmas joy, void of a reason.

Pam Ackermann

Wheeling

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