the Advent journey is
no walk in the park. It is
like no other we might take
with the path leading to
a small, poor baby of color
in a neglected part of town
rejected even by innkeepers
and born to simple laborers
in the lowest of quarters
the unadorned; the vulnerable,
the misunderstood, the dismissed
even the despised
a baby that will be hated and hunted
becoming a refugee
before it can walk
there are no streets of gold
and mansions of marble
no fortune to inherit
this is the dirty, the downtrodden
the unknown
and we believe we
want to be there?
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