Vigeon Post

THE THREE GIFTS 2008

CASPAR

My little Lord receive this gold,
the sign of all our worldly wealth
For banks no longer should now hold
their grip on your world's trading health
Hard headed dealers soon take fright
and sentiment turns markets cold
Regardless of the real world's plight
where human souls are bought and sold..
Executives who fail to act
retire with bonuses intact
While those with nothing see depart
their job, their home and then their heart..
In your best world where You are King
there money's not the basic thing.
Nor known the criminality
Of ledger book morality.
My little Lord convert my proffered gold
to justice, mercy and to joy untold






MELCHIOR

My gift of fragrant frankincense
surrounds great Barak's tour de force;
So many prayers ascend to him
in hope for Planet Earth's new course.
Hosanna to Obama's son
Great is the victory he won.
Pray our expectance don't descend
to disillusion at the end
And then the old prophetic story -
the cross that's consequent on glory..







BALTASAR

To you my dearest Infant King
My pain controlling myrrh I bring;
Too late to dull the agony
Of victims like dear Baby P.

Safe in your mother's arms you smile
And like most kids make life a joke
Yet in prophetic little while
You too will feel the nailing stroke.

Yourself a victim can explain
The human joy at giving pain;
The screams that reach your heavenly city
The minds and heart that know no pity.
The hand that broke that baby's spine
Were human hand like yours and mine

If it be true that only pain
Can heal the darkness of the heart
A world intent on seeking gain
And recreation cannot start
To make the sacrifice required
For the atonement that's desired.

Salvation does not come by laws;
But when you tame the devil's claws.

(Note: for folk outside UK "Baby P" is the legal name given to an 18 month old little boy who was beaten to death by his mother's boy friends with a broken skull, broken back and broken limbs - a cause celebre/scandal at the way Social Services did not act when they knew the child was at risk.
Papers full of it - especially the tabloids !)




CHANT FOR ALL


Myrrh and frankincense and gold
For Love that can't be bought or sold.
Gold and myrrh and frankincense
To find a faith that makes good sense.
Gold and frankincense and myrrh
See hope as life's conditioner.
So we our mystic treasures bring
To you our once and future King.