With child was she as yet unwed, a shameful state to be
But God was with them and her betrothed a dream of faith had he
“Be not afraid to take the woman into your home as wife
For the child within is of the Spirit and through Him you will gain life.”
The holy texts predict this all, they reference these affairs
Not just once but many times down through the many years
How can it be, unless it’s true, these common parts and threads
Of age old books and long told lore from many hearts and heads.
I’ve said before in written form about the trip of birth
From Nazareth to Bethlehem the couple walked the earth
On sandaled feet, they trod the ground from one place to the next
Together walking, hand in hand, in fulfillment of the text
The birth to be in Bethlehem, they did not know the why
Only that the rulers there had made them all comply
To return to where they had been born for census, the decree
Of Caesar simply to be counted where their home was thought to be.
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