ANOTHER NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS ON THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS I WAS MAKING MY ROUNDS, LOOKING FOR JUST ONE MORE PERSON THAT I COULD POUND, AND TAKE AWAY THEIR CASH, SO I COULD ADD IT TO MY STASH, THE MONEY I WOULD MAKE, STRAIGHT TO THE DRUG DEALER I WOULD TAKE, TO BUY ME SOMETHING THAT WOULD KEEP ME HIGH, AT LEAST TILL THE HOLIDAY SEASON WENT BY, FOR I HAD NO ONE TO CALL MY OWN, I DIDNT EVEN HAVE A HOME, ON THE STREETS I HAVE BEEN, FROM THE TIME I WAS TEN, THAT’S WHEN A JEALOUS BOY FRIEND STABBED MY MOM AND SHE DIED, AND IN A ORPHANAGE I WAS FORCED TO RESIDE, I DIDNT LIKE IT THERE SO I RAN AWAY, AND HAVE LIVED ON THE STREETS SINCE THAT DAY, LIFE ON THE STREETS HASNT BEEN EASY, A LOT OF THE THINGS I WENT THROUGH WOULD MAKE YOU QUEASY, THAT’S WHY I SOUGHT OUT THE COMFORT OF DRUGS, INSTEAD OF A FAMILY TO HUG, I WAS ABOUT TO GIVE UP FOR THE NIGHT, WHEN I SAW A PERSON STANDING UNDER THE STREET LIGHT, SO I PUT ON MY MASK, AND GOT READY FOR MY EVIL TASK, I APPROACHED THE STRANGER, WHO DIDNT KNOW HE WAS IN DANGER, I PULLED OUT MY KNIFE, AND THREATENED TO TAKE HIS LIFE, BUT THE STRANGER DIDNT CRINGE IN FEAR, INSTEAD HE GRINNED FROM EAR TO EAR, THIS CAUSED ME TO STEP BACK IN SURPRISE, FROM MY WOULD BE PRIZE, THE STRANGER LOOKED AT ME WITH COLD BLUE EYES, THE LOOK MADE ME THINK HE WAS VERY WISE, THAT KNIFE CANT CAUSE ME HARM HE SAID, ESPECIALLY TO ONE THAT WAS ONCE DEAD, SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL FORGET IT, AND PUT IT BACK IN YOUR POCKET, I FELT THE URGE TO RUN, BUT I COULDNT MOVE MY FEET FOR THEY FELT LIKE THEY WEIGHED A TON, SO I JUST STOOD THERE, WITH MY HEART COLD WITH FEAR, DONT WORRY I DONT MEAN YOU ANY HARM, JUST HOPING IN YOUR HEART TO SET OFF AN ALARM, HOPEFULLY IT’S NOT TO LATE, TO CHANGE YOUR FATE, SOMETHING THAT THE RICH MAN, WISHED COULD OF HAPPENED BEFORE HE WENT TO THAT HELLISH LAND, YOU REMEMBER THAT PARABLE , FROM THE HOLY BIBLE, I KNOW YOU DO, IT’S THE ONE YOUR MOMMIE READ TO YOU, THAT STUCK IN YOUR HEAD, AND SOMETIMES STILL FILLS YOU WITH DREAD, AT LEAST IT DID UNTIL THE DAY THAT YOUR MOTHER PAST AWAY, WELL YOUR MOTHER IS IN HEAVEN, WATCHING YOU MISBEHAVING, WHAT YOU DO CAUSES HER PAIN, AND HER TEARS FALL LIKE RAIN, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE CAUSED HER SO MUCH WOE, BUT SHE WANTS YOU TO KNOW, SHE STILL LOVES YOU SO, AND SHE PROVED IT TO BY GOING TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER ABOUT YOU, IN HOPES HE WOULD SEND SOME TO GET YOU, TO CHANGE YOUR WAYS, BEFORE THE END OF YOUR DAYS, SHE SAT AT THE FOOT OF HIS THRONE, AND WOULDNT GO TO HER HEAVENLY HOME, SHE SAT THERE WITH TEARS IN HER EYES AND A FROWN ON HER FACE, THIS WAS SOMETHING IN HEAVEN THAT WAS OUT OF PLACE, HER SADNESS, WAS EFFECTING EVERYONES HAPPINESS, UNTIL AFTER A LONG WHILE, GOD GAVE IN AND LOOKED AT YOUR MOTHER WITH A SMILE, THEN HE SAID OKAY, I WILL SEND SOMEONE JUST FOR ONE DAY, IF HE DONT CHANGE BY THEN, HE WILL SURELY DIE AND GO TO HELL FOR HIS SINS, SHE SAID WITH TEARS IN HER EYES THATS ALL I AM ASKING OF YOU, AND IF IT DONT WORK FOR ME TROUBLING YOU, I WILL WILLINGLY GOT TOO, BUT GOD TOLD HER THAT WAS SOMETHING SHE WOULDNT DO, FOR YOU HAVE EARNED YOUR RIGHT, TO STAND IN MY LOVING SIGHT, SO GOD LOOKED AROUND, FOR SOMEONE HE COULD SEND DOWN, I HAD HEARD YOUR MOTHERS CONSTANT PLEA, SO I STOOD UP AND ASKED GOD TO SEND ME, I TOLD HIM I WOULD DO WHAT I CAN, TO CHANGE THE HEART OF THIS EVIL MAN, GOD TOLD ME TO GO MY WAY, BUT TO REMEMBER I HAD ONLY ONE DAY, SO WITH GOD AND YOUR MOTHERS BLESSNG, I AM HERE TO HOPEFULLY TEACH YOU A LESSON, SO WITH THAT HE TOOK ME BY THE HAND AND MY HEART FILLED WITH DREAD, AND IN A MOMENT I STOOD BEFORE A HOSPITAL BED, BEFORE ME IN THAT BED WAS SOMEONE I KNEW, HE WAS ONE OF MY VICTIMS THAT WITH MY KNIFE I SLICED AND HEWED, HE HAD DECIDED HE WOULD RATHER DIE, THEN TO SEE THE TEARS IN HIS CHILDRENS EYES, WHEN THEY WOKE UP ON CHRISTMAS DAY TO SEE, THAT THERE WERE NO PRESENTS UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE, WELL THAT WAS THE WRONG THING TO DO, FOR I CUT HIM UP AND TOOK HIS MONEY TOO, NOW HE LAY THERE BROKE BEATEN, AND HALF DEAD, WITH HIS FAMILY STANDING AROUND HIM WITH DREAD, AS I STOOD THERE I FIRST WONDERED IF I COULD BE SEEN, OBLIVIOUSLY NOT BECAUSE SOMEONE WOULD OF LET OUT A SCREAM, FOR BEFORE THEM WAS A MASKED MAN, WTH A KNIFE IN HIS HAND, IN AWAY I WISH THEY COULD SEE, AT LEAST WHAT SEEING THEM WAS DOING TO ME, FOR TEARS WERE WELLING UP IN MY EYES, AND I COULDN’T HELP IT NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRY, FOR I REMEMBERED HOW I FELT, WHEN AT MY MOTHERS SIDE I KNELT, AS SHE BREATHED HER LAST BREATH, AND SUCCUMBED TO THE HANDS OF DEATH, AS THE TEARS FROM MY EYES REALLY BEGIN TO FLOW, THE STRANGER SAID IT WAS TIME TO GO, AND IN A MOMENT I WAS WHISKED AWAY, TO ANOTHER PLACE TO A DIFFERENT DAY, I STOOD BY THE STRANGER, AND LOOKED AT A CHILD LAYING IN A MANGER, I KNEW WHO THE CHILD WAS WITHOUT ASKING, HE WAS GODS SON THE MESSIAH THE KING OF ALL KINGS, WE WATCHED THE SHEPHERDS COME IN FROM THE FIELDS, AND IN FRONT OF THE CHILD THEY KNEELED, TO PAY HOMAGE TO THIS CHILD OF LOVE, SENT TO THEM FROM GOD IN HEAVEN ABOVE, AS I TO WAS ABOUT TO GO TO MY KNEE, THE STRANGER SAID IT WAS TIME TO LEAVE, SO BEFORE I COULD PAY MY RESPECTS TO GODS SON, FROM HIS PRESENCE WE WERE GONE, WELL THE NEXT THING I SAW REALLY GOT THE BEST OF ME, FOR HERE WAS THAT CHILD NOW A MAN NAILED TO A TREE, AND HE WAS LOOKING DIRECTLY AT ME, AND WHAT MADE MATERS WORSE THE STRANGER WAS THE ONE NAILED TO THE TREE, WELL I FELL TO MY KNEES AND BURIED MY FACE IN THE SAND, NEXT THING I KNEW THE STRANGER LIFTED ME UP WITH HIS GENTLE HAND, THERE BEFORE ME WAS A BURIAL CAVE WITH THE STONE ROLLED AWAY, THE STRANGER WAS STANDING BEFORE ME IN THE LIGHT OF A NEW DAY, THE STRANGER WAS NOW ROBED IN WHITE, AND SURROUNDED BY A GLORIOUS LIGHT, HE wasn’t A STRANGER ANY MORE, FOR HE IS THE ONE I LOVE AND ADORE, CHRIST THE SON OF GOD WHO ON A CROSS FOR MY SINS DID DIE, THEN IN A BLINK OF AN EYE, I WAS ONCE AGAIN UNDER THE STREET LIGHT, BUT THE STRANGER WAS NO LONGER IN SIGHT, INSTEAD OF HIM THERE WAS A POLICEMAN WITH A GUN, TELLING ME I HAD BETTER NOT RUN, SO I WAS TAKEN TO JAIL TRIED AND CONVICTED AND SENT TO PRISON, ALTHOUGH I WAS IN PRISON I LOVED TO CELEBRATE THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, NOT JUST ON THE HOLIDAY, BUT EACH AND EVERY DAY, AND WHEN I GOT FREE, I MADE MY MOM IN HEAVEN AS PROUD AS CAN BE, FOR I DEDICATED THE REST OF MY LIFE BRINGING GODS CHILDREN TO HIM AND AWAY FROM EARTHLY STRIFE,