Poetry list, Christmas
Beyond Bethlehem
Bethlehem
Barely a breath has filled your lungs
You know nothing
and without another you cannot live
Absent from our human past
and promised death in the future
Is this hope? Is this wisdom?
Yes, for love is so simple
and truth so fragile
This is Jesus in time
Love unending in our midst
Beyond – the gift from afar
Beyond all knowledge and self
Here in this birth
© Neil Thompson 2017