Christmas eve meditation

Messiah
You are re-incarnated
in my history
each Christmas
as in Your first
entry into world history

You divide everything into
past
and future

you bring hope again

in forgiveness form
in form of
future freedom
from failure

you come laughing
in infant optimism

the past has past
tomorrow is

life

pressing new year
petals
up through hard
winter soil

life

rising against
abandonment
that threatens
every illigitimate
son

life

born sans sanitation
and
without midwife

life

escaping
jealous
killing kings

escaping
bitter mobs
fists full of stone

life

embracing
man
as brother

embracing
death

life

lying down and
standing up again
each year

like baby Moses
taking first steps
on river banks of
desert sand

then crossing sea
then crossing river