Christmas 2010
By: Cindy Matteson
A baby king to save the world?
The angel choir wasted on coarse, common shepherds?
A first time, unmarried, inexperienced mother?
A humiliated, humbled, ordinary father?
And this is how you chose to bring
the world together under this baby king.
In a series of mishaps, mistakes, and familiar things:
like hay and sheep
cloth and cold
tiny hands for a girl mama to hold.
Like songs and whispers
hums and tears
love that bolsters all our fears.
A series of mishaps?
Or, well planned irony?
Through a power not controlled by our mistaken priority.
Create in my heart
a common stable
to remind me all ways
of what you are able.
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