as we're celebrating
with family and friends
on Christmas day
give a thought to nations
who are in the fife
of a destructive flay

there will be no peace
all harmony unkempt
the tones of happiness
in these lands exempt

munitions reining down
terror in every street
the frightened war weary
caught in a violent cleat

the wailing of innocent children
the grieving heart of a mother
humanity lost in the woods
the planet's brotherhood in smother

and the joys of Christmas
we'll have to share
yet there will be places on our orb
dowsed with pain and despair

Syria and Iraq
those trouble riven territories
where there is an ongoing
legacy of animosities

merry and mirthful
shall be our Christmas day
but let us not forget war torn countries
far beyond our homeland's bay