A Christmas Carol - Larry Robinson

[Larry Robinson]

A Christmas Carol

Away in a manger
or a crack house
or under a bridge
or in a bombed-out village
or a refugee camp
or in the mesquite shade close to the border wall
some Mary is giving birth.
Even as you read this
a child is being born.
What if one of these were the promised one,
the beacon of hope,
the seed of a new light
in a dark time?
What if they all were?
What gifts would you bring
If you were wise?

     - Larry Robinson



"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."
    - Wendell Berry