The moonlight sways and cradles the land,
While voices mumble and fall to the dirt,
"There is no room here."

Her back bends, her face practically touching the fur she still sits on,
The donkey,
He walks on.
Carrying the woman with the sacred womb,

The man
He rushes from door to door,
Eye's pleading, but brave.
Until finally the dust settles
And one man points to the space that he has

For them.
There was one place.

Straw coated in mud,
Windows of splintering wood,
This ground, these walls, nothing special
until
This night.

We think we are better than beasts,
cows
sheep
pigs
         But yet
They are the ones to make room
As a young mother falls to her knees
panting and wailing
Trembling with pain
Not knowing yet that her son would be taken from this world
with tremendous pain.

She cries, she pushes-
She is scared.
But the man holds her tight,
Somehow
They don't feel alone.

As a piercing diamond illuminates the sky
It's white light falling onto them like silver drapes

And her pain is soothed somehow
melting into the
Silent night
Holy night.

And then
The air around them bows
and folds around the stable.
The blood that runs through her veins now spills onto the ground
This blood runs through His veins as the Christ child is born
The very blood he will one day shed to save
even those
Who have no room.

He now cries out into the night
as He takes His first breath of life
on this earth.
This earth covered in hay and dirt and blood.

The savior of all men only knows one thing in this moment
His mother.

And He is wrapped in swaddling clothes.
They speak of the manger he lays in
but the only manger this night
are the arms of mother.

Her blood is His blood.
His blood.
So she will suffer through it all
with him.

But this night now rests.
Joseph
Mary
Jesus.

A moment and story
with so many details unknown.
Too sacred
for us.

But every year we remember
We light candles
and stare into the night sky.
For the one blessed night that changed
                     Everything.

 For this one night
Star light wraps around the skies
And heaven bows down
To kiss the earth good night
For this one night
Hope is born

And there is peace.