Carolyn Wilkins: Music

MOTHER GROANED

Mother Groaned
As she labored
Squattin' down on the stable floor
New life knockin'
At the threshold
Her body strugglin'
To open the door.
Joseph paces
And he worries
Every time Mary cries anew
Oh if only
He could help her
But there is nothing
He can do

Howling in ecstatic trance
She labors her creation dance
Her breath a hard and ragged gasp
Until the head appears at last

Miles away
The jet black magi
Wakes his partners from a
Groggy sleep
They must hurry
On their journey
There's a promise that they must keep.
High above
A brilliant blue star
Shining bright
In the winter sky
Tells the world this
Mother's story -
That her moment of birth is nigh.

Blood and sweat pour down her thighs
While choirs of angels
Sing outside.
And from Her womb the savior comes
Uniting God and man in One.

Between two worlds you are the
Door of Life
Consort of Heaven, the
Mother and the Wife.
From your body was born the
holy Flame
That shines in the darkness to
Guide us home again.

Light of the world please
Guide us home
Again.