Cold Night: A Poem

Cold Night: A Poem


Cold night
winter has arrived
Chilly air surrounds
A few places have put up Christmas lights
adding a cheery warmth to the air


Lights here
but two nights ago
the lights in the Eiffel Tower were out
signifying lives lost

Over a century ago on the eve of the First World War, Sir Edward Grey the British Foreign Secretary said,
The lights have gone out all over Europe
And we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

It is 101 years later and looking back at the history of Europe and the world since then,
we are still waiting for those lights extinguished on that August night of 1914 to be lit again.


-A poem written by Christopher
 Sunday November 15th
 2015.