07 January 2009

The Word became flesh

I just discovered a poem I wrote a few years back. Some nice touches in it perhaps ...

Creator Christ incarnate
One cell within a girl divides
Maker of the universe
Confined to dividing DNA
How can chromosomes
Code for human and divine?
Yet in this double helix
God and child are intertwined
And nourished by his mother's blood
The Son of God grows in utero.

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