Starburst
The night we sat
‘neath the starburst sky
And looked upon the world
Cloaked in midnight dark
Everything hovered
Perfectly still
As though in freeze frame
Like a window sill
We gazed, amazed
Up at that vast celestial cloak
And wondered if it was the same one
That fateful night angels awoke
The one that birthed a holy baby
Wrapped in hasty cloths
The little king who cooed and sighed
In a dingy, musty barn
The One who would
Forever change the course of lives
The God-man who would one day
Cleanse this broken world’s strifes
With heavenly, royal blood
Spilled on a Romanesque tree
A sacrifice that would forever
Set our sordid mankind free
Yes we wondered that night
If it’s the very same sky
As we usher in a new year
And to the old say
“Auld Lang Syne!”
