Yuletide

As
in their day
as
in our own…
Gloria!
Chorus on high
heralding
tidings of joy
begotten
unto us He
anticipated
redeemer of all
being
mystery and mundane
beckoning
friend and foe
…accommodation
common space guarded
meager
for our Lord
then
the crowded inn
now
the in crowd
then
as precedent established
now
as protocol dictates
relegated
to social margins
crux
of saving grace
…behold
a gathering select
comprising
humble and low
outcasts
with beast billeted
blessed
by presence divine
convened
then as now
pariahs
save for Providence
…amen
seek the manger
posited
amid temporal margins
refuge
of poor sinners
grafting
root of Jesse
from
His benevolent way
redemption
exaltation via humility
since
where they flock
Logos
invested salvation history
…soon
Magi from afar
by
supernal light led
rendering
largess so edified
lauding
royalty divinity humanity
serving
notice that Advent
obliges
attribution beyond mediocrity.