Hound of Heaven Hymns

Poetry list, Christmas

emptiness

the manger is more
than poverty it
is the place of human
emptiness
which love in frail
flesh fills and
never leaves an
emptiness
that leads to a
time of homeless
wandering and a
bleak agonising
execution with
a borrowed
stone–cold tomb
emptiness
is all I have to offer
emptiness
is how we are filled
so the angels light
the darkness and
banish the silence
with their music
a boy is born
a saviour is given
peace is promised
not in the fulness
of our busy self–soaked
activities and
introspection but in
the eternal vista of
the strange and miraculous
emptiness
that is mine and
our ungraspable
joy of the midnight
void
that lies in my heart
and the world’s
gratia plena