Did I Believe?

The following is the first of two Christmas poems I wrote when in the Navy (I'll save the other for another year). Merry Christmas to you! -j.p. ©Emittravel 2010

Did I Believe?

Hot sands

under sandaled feet.

Many miles

I’ve walked this day,

and many more

come the morrow.

Through icy wind

and desert heat,

to a loving being

I am drawn.

It started as rumor,

to laugh and to scorn.

Though some kept it quiet;

to keep it with hope.

Did I believe?

That I did not know.

So many false,

to me it must show.

Into the night

I keep up my stride.

If I stop to rest

that hope just might die.

A single star

to light my way.

To see the new king

who was born this day.

J.P. Wiegand

©Emittravel 1986