BIRTH
IT IS THE TIME
FOR SINGING PRETTY SONGS
ABOUT EVENTS
THAT MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED
BURIED IN THE FOLKTALES
IS THE FACT
GOD HAS BECAME MAN
SO MAN CAN BECOME GOD-LIKE
BURIED IN ALL THE COMMOTION
ABOUT CHRISTMAS
BURIED IN ALL THE HULLABALOO
AND OFTEN FORGOTTEN
OR IGNORED
IS A BASIC TENET
OF OUR FAITH
GOD HAS BECOME MAN
AND MAN HAS HIS DIGNITY
AND IMMORTALITY RESTORED
CHRISTIANS HAVE A LONG HISTORY
OF TREATING THE STRANGER
AS NOT BEING GOD’S CHILD
HOW THEN CAN IT LEAD THE WORLD
TO HIS BIRTHING PLACE
HE IS IN US
MUCH AS A PREGNANT WOMEN BEARS A CHILD
MUCH AS A WOMAN LABORS
WE SHOULD LABOR TO BRING HIS CREATION
TO FRUITION
HE DOESN’T NEED THE IMAGE
OF A COLD STABLE
OUR HEARTS ARE COLD ENOUGH
HE DOESN’T NEED THE IMAGE
OF A CROWDED INN
OUR BUSYNESS
HAVE CROWDED HIM OUT
HE DOESN’T NEED SWEET CAROLS SUNG
WHEN THEY ARE SUNG BY ROTE
WITH NO MEANING
HE DOESN’T NEED HERALD ANGELS SINGING
KEEP CASH IN CHRISTMAS
WHEN CHRISTMAS IS MEASURED
BY HOW MUCH YOU GET
WHEN SHEPHERDS
WHO SMELL LIKE SHEEP
ARE KEPT OUT
HE INVITES THEM IN
AS THEIR RIGHT
WHETHER THEY ARE LEGENDS
OR FACT
DOESN’T MATTER
UNLESS HIS BIRTH
IS A LIFE CHANGING EVENT
FOR US
UNLESS WE BEHAVE
AS ONES
GIVEN DIGNITY
BY GOD’S BIRTH
AND EXTEND THE RIGHTS
OF THAT DIGNITY
TO ALL
IF WE DON’T
GOD MIGHT HAVE BEEN
BORN IN A TRASH CAN
AND THROWN OUT
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