Silent Night, Shared Humanity

The frozen earth beneath our feet. A dying fire without its heat.

The sky was silent, cold and bare. Hope was something thin as air.

We whispered prayers we couldn't say to see the dawn to find a way.

Never thought this Christmas Eve held a miracle to believe. Then through the

dark, a voice of light. A single star in endless night.

Across the trenches soft and clear. A hymn of home reached every ear.

Silent night. Holy night. Your song rose gently through the bitter white.

And with trembling hearts, we sang it too. The snow became