Christmas Contemplation

The Archetypal Nativity

Away from their home,

in the dark of the night

a mother and father

take flight amidst fright.

The mother is seated.

The father is near.

Guided and treated

by stars that appear.

Healers with magic

and wisdom to spare.

Present-day men

of science take care.

Unto us a son is given,

another son appears as well.

Like Atlas they shall hold unriven

the whole wide world in which they dwell.

But that remains a future day

for now they lie in mother’s arms.

And she with love lets both them lay

holy, sacred, are her charms.

A love like hers may save all men

if all such love men showed, what then?

Beneath the wings of a mother hen

gathered in peace, each other’s kin.

Central to every sacred family…

beats the heart of a sacred mother.

And that’s why I love you so immensely.