The Red Day

Christmas, 
a season of giving, 
giving, give, gone, 
a season of helping, 
helping, help, helped, 
a season of joy, 
joyful, joy, joyless, 
a season to remember, 
terrifying, terror, terrified, 
a season to be calm and stop,
stopping, STOP, stopped, 
a season of horrors reborn in the memories of millions, 
of a cold night and a massacre in a time of peace,
a day the world celebrates while those in their unmarked graves weep.