Who Could Have Seen It Coming?

 Who could truly have foreseen 

what lay beyond that stable birth,

the dawning day of Heaven's dream,

the saving of a fallen Earth?

Who could have looked at the child,

so fragile then in Mary's arms,

and seen a Saviour meek and mild

and stalwart in the face of harms

that rose in anger from Abyss

to reclaim what they thought their own,

and could not be resolved to this,

that their fate had now been sown

by that Babe, now fast asleep,

the Hero who would light the deep.

The Five Minute Friday prompt this week is LONG.

It was a really lengthy trip,

following that shining star,

and friends said they'd lost their grip,

but Magi said, Well, here we are

to see the whole wide world's new king

sleeping in a manger

and unaware of anything 

that could be a danger,

but the Wise Men realized

that Herod was off his nut,

thinking Baby's death be prized,

so they went and cut

and ran home by another route

to avoid a royal dispute.

Music from the Goo Goo Dolls, with Better Days

Had Sylvia been among the Magi, she would have brought ice cream.