God’s Mother

by Pavel Chichikov

God’s mother of an infant God –

The tendon of her arm is bent

By weight of incarnated Word –

She bears her godly innocent

She is depleted, so His life

Weighs heavily upon her arm –

Receives His weight without relief,

Repels the whips of harm

Beneath her eyes the moons of age

The crescent lunas of distress –

Shield Him from a Judas rage

Defenseless Tenderness

Lay Him on an infant bed

The innocent of peace –

Shepherds are His ministers

To cover Him with fleece

Lay him on a sheet of gold

Unconquerable womb –

Death was never bought or sold

Or woven on that loom

Pavel's Websites are at Grey Owl Press and The Poetry of Pavel Chichikov