Seeing Christmas Light

On By dorahakIn Poems

I stand at the well at the desert’s end
the camels noisy at the trough
there’s the star blazing above me
the night sky distraught with light.
I, looking down as into a mirror,
drawn to the abyss below.

The star grows preternaturally, soundless
my cries echo it close, spilling embittered tears,
so might the well’s bounds overflow,
now the journey has been for nothing
my hopes and fears for naught.

This cankered sore that my heart is
this cauled face, disfigured husk,
what the worldly-wise has given birth to,
I sag to my knees and howl:
there is no sorrow as impenetrable
as knowing the road you’ve followed
in the end was all a mirage.

Even as death hangs o’er me
an eternal vision belies it;
alone I stand under starlight
alone I gaze at the night
this wanderer as foolish as a beast
wondering that the yawning darkness
had not overtaken the light.

If birth is but a prelude to death
what if death is the prelude to life?
Here, across trackless sands following
a star as bright as the morning shines
to watch over me in the night;
bemused I lift my eyes up
to see a distant rise,
there to see a babe born
who set the star in the skies.

18 thoughts on “Seeing Christmas Light”

  2. Yes; and that Child grew up and is my Savior!!! I am so glad that He came and I am glad that I took His hand and have been following Him for over 40 years.
    I celebrate His BIRTHDAY at this time of year and I can’t wait to meet Him face to face!!!!
    Thank you for sharing such a poignant poem of His birth.
    Merry CHRISTmas and a very GLORIOUS 2021!!!!

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