Was the nativity scene actually Christmas card serenity
When you arrived kicking and screaming out of eternity?
Would you rather have been back inside Mary’s belly?
Than in prickly hay – all animal-slobber-smelly?
Were your parents concerned about where you were lying?
Did you keep the animals awake with your new-born crying…
And the cattle get their own back by lowing when you slept?
Did Joseph survey the scene, feeling inadequate and inept?
And did your mother Mary look on and wonder
if this was detail-planned or a cosmic blunder:
That the son of God should star in this sorry story
While above the hills angels proclaimed his glory?
And how much does God love us that he endured the nativity
so we can eat, drink and enjoy the seasonal festivity?
Nick Lear 2011
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