Alleluia, He Came

Many concerns are on my plate so many worries…tranquility escapes I look to the right and to the left but only find more troubling depth In this vacant alley…I feel lost like there is no end…just cost Then, in a fragrant whisp, I’m reminded… of a road, and barn…to which it winded Light glows…from a heavenly candle that slowly moves across…midnight’s mantle My soul’s eye…follows its course ‘til it halts, beaming as a guiding source From an ass…a tended virgin alights… large with child…the hay a blessed site A cry comes forth…awakening the world for A Child is Born… a prophesied hurl And as shepherds and magi rush to the scene my shoulder’s yoke morphs…a peace…serene The Joy of the Season which I had evaded now enters my heart and I am elated I hear a choir…of the heofon kind announcing the Savior…of all mankind Though my troubles are still yet the same… hope, glistens horizon…Alleluia, Christ came! Is 7:14, 9:6, Matt 11: 28-30, Lk 2:8-20 ©jmsbell-12/05/22