Christmas Poetry: Without Us

You can do this without us.

Move the earth through its orbit,
the courses of the stars you keep on track.
The galaxies whose music you orchestrate,
sing from millennium to millennium.

That you can do this without us
we so know.
Which is why we are amazed still
that you don’t.

Have not left us alone
to navigate through the courses of our lives,
to hold on to this spinning earth which,
but for your gravity we could not survive.

You can do this without us
we understand,
which is why we stand in awe still
that you’ve chosen otherwise.

That instead you have not only not left,
but you’ve come as close as we each allow.
In Immanuel, God with us,
our unwrapping forever gift.

Oh, you can so do this without us.

Move the earth through its orbit
the courses of the stars on track.
The galaxies…