After the Manger

Their journey home,
back to the East
to their charts, their maps,
their study of the stars
The wise men returning
to their home country
going home another way
What stories did they ponder
the telling of the gifts
given in the stable
to the babe in the manger
the humble station
of the king below the star
The father, the mother, the baby
under the watchful star
What must they have felt
on their journey home
of the prophesy fulfilled
the questions, the fears of the king
all of Jerusalem, at the coming of the child
blood of Jesse, born of the young girl
What future was there
for the wise men three
at the end of their journey home,
while the babe was taken
into hiding, to save him from wrath

January 4, 2008
Matthew 2:1-12
Matthew 2:13-23