A helpless baby is our promised king.
His birth was announced by stars and angels:
The child is sleeping in a manger.
In Herod's eyes - he's a mortal danger,
A worthy competitor to try and kill.
The child is sleeping in a manger,
A helpless baby is our promised king.
Author Bio:
Yevgeniya Przhebelskaya has held a variety of paid and volunteer jobs in the education field, including teaching introductory college classes and facilitating poetry workshops. Yevgeniya's poems were published in the Voices Project, Time of Singing, Page and Spine, First Literary Review-East, Ancient Paths, and other print and online publications, and were nominated for the Pushcart Prize two times. Check out more of her poems at ypoetry.weebly.com