Our Childhood Used to Know

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Our childhood used to know

A fountain that gushed like the flow

Of a mighty rushing wind and stole

Thro the streets of our town, hauling the cold

In its wake yet, insulating us with a coat

Of love’s warmth squeezing a song from stone.

Our childhood used to know

A tale divine of a time long ago,

When a child wrapped in swaddling clothes

Slept on the hay for there was no place to go.

How blinding halos His coming to shepherds told,

And of wise men visiting the new-born with gifts bold.

Our childhood used to know

Of Christmas carols, sung till lungs did explode

While white-faced kids dared the harmattan to blow

And some other kids danced and raced in the snow.

But our happiest memories turn to Mama’s sweet bowl

Of wholesome heaps of rice, chicken and stew overflow.

When at the table we gathered and let the show

Commence and in that Christmas feast love was known.

Akpan

Lowly

Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Madonna and Child (1319) depicts swaddling bands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I never knew love

Not until you brought me to a stable,

And shut out voices of the world,

Then pointed me to a lowly cradle.

That’s where love unknown

Became the only love ever known.

It wasn’t the image of the Madonna,

That ikon had its arresting diorama.

It was the Bambino fast asleep;

Great God Almighty come as a baby lowly

All wrapped up in swaddling bands.

He is the Agape come to save the race of man.

I never knew lowly,

Not until the God-Son strapped on humanity.

Akpan