Sonnet

Keep your family safe.
That they they may always be defended by your protection.
We may chafe.
But that is our election.

Why have sixty million enjoyed the Les Miserables musical.
Because it is a story of redemption.
It is not just that the tunes are magical.
Its characters face down bitterness’ temptation.

The hero finds love in a lost child.
The priest forgives his theft.
Even the policeman realises in the end that he should have been mild.
The young man recognises to the older his debt.

So much on television is just nasty soap.
But we need love and hope.

Haiku

Love for a lost child
And Forgiveness for a theft
young owes the elder