We Refugees

Date added: 29/05/2020

 WE REFUGEES

By the first dream,

   I was assured:

Mary was faithful,

   Not fooling around.

That was fulfilled.

By the second dream,

   I was warned:

We three refugees

   Needed to flee.

This was frightening.

We took the road South,

To Gentile territory,

   Terrified.

Oppressive or safe?

Who could tell?

Sad and miserable,

   Sleepless nights,

Hungry and thirsty,

   On the move,

Hardships, distress.

How can we sing

   The Lord’s song

   In a strange land?

How long, O Lord?

Owning nothing,

   Yet, with this child,

   Possessing everything.

© Graham Kings, Nourishing Connections (Canterbury Press, 2020).

Commissioned and first published in Andrew Wheeler, Desire of the Nations: The Magi, their journey and the Child (Seimos Press, 2015) and on Covenant January 2016.