The Quiet Birth

 

Christ came

on Christmas day

and a tinseled Christmas

crowd crushed

Him through store

after stone.

 

Christ came

on Christmas day

and received

no gifts, no

promises and

not even a santa stocking.

 

Christ came

on Christmas day

and like a lonely

old widow,

was deserted

by Christians spitting

Christmas greetings

on their way

To crowed firesides.

 

Christ came on

Christmas day

to a tin-can

onion box house

and threw Himself,

crying at the feet

of a battered family

and they saw Him not.

 

Christ came on

Christmas day

and built a fire

in the cold

that warmed hands that

warmed others

who warmed others….