Amid the carnage & ruin . . .
An innocent child lies dead.
All is silent & lost forever
On this unholiest of nights.

What makes it worse is
That it's the night of Jesus' birth,
But that fact is lost & forgotten
In the face of the evil that transpires.

Redemption is in extremis . . .
As the onlookers lose interest
In the child's mortal, but...