This One Night

The moonlight sways and cradles the land,

While voices mumble and fall to the dirt,

"There is no room here."

Her back bends,

her face practically touching the fur she sits on,

The donkey,

He walks on.

Carrying the woman with the sacred womb,

The man

He rushes from door to door,

Eye's pleading, but brave.

Until finally the dust settles

And one man points to the space that he has

For them.

There was one place.

Straw coated in mud,

Windows of splintering wood,

This ground, these walls, nothing special

until

This night.

We think we are better than beasts,

cows

sheep

pigs

      But yet

They are the ones to make room

As a young mother falls to her knees

panting and wailing

Trembling with pain

Not knowing yet

that her son would also be taken from this world

     trembling with pain.

She cries, she pushes-

She is scared.

But the man holds her tight,

Somehow

They don't feel alone.

As a piercing diamond illuminates the sky

It's white light falling onto them like silver drapes

And her pain is soothed somehow

melting into the

Silent night

Holy night.

And then

The air around them bows

and folds around the stable.

The blood that runs through her veins now spills onto the ground

This same blood runs through His veins

as the Christ child is born

The very blood he will one day shed to save

even those

Who have no room.

He now cries out into the night

as He takes His first breath of life

on this earth.

This earth covered in hay and dirt and blood.

The savior of all men only knows one thing in this moment

His mother.

And He is wrapped in swaddling clothes.

They speak of the manger he lays in

but the only manger this night

are the arms of mother.

Her blood is His blood.

And she will suffer through it all

with him.

But this night now rests.

Joseph

Mary

Jesus.

A moment and story

with so many details unknown.

Too sacred

for us.

But every year we remember

We light candles

and stare into the night sky.

For the one blessed night that changed

      Everything.

For this one night

Star light wraps around the skies

And heaven bows down

To kiss the earth good night.

For this one night

Hope is born.

And there is peace.

-- Words by me!