Christmas Song of an Unexpected Child

by Cristina Nehring (December 2023)

I am the infant you scorned
I am the girl you almost lost
I am the babe you left to cry
In hopes that I’d come to die.
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I am the powerhouse you took for a louse,
The emergent queen you took for too lean,
Too fragile to contend with you.
How wrong you were my native beast;
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It takes a feast to mark what has occurred;
A fourth and fifth would stay its course.
Let slight rival might,
As with me and you, and you and me
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and the adorned Christmas tree
gleaming with blubs and lights,
intended to extinguish fights
between frail and strong
and frail as strong.
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