INSTEAD!

 

HE COULD have come at the head of a howling horde,

a mob of wrathful demons recruited to scour

the earth and ravage it with fire and sword

in a full-court press to prove his might and power

HE COULD have loosed the rivers, burned the sky

melted mountains, destroyed the face of the moon

or swept the planet clean to purify 

it for a New Creation, coming soon

INSTEAD, he came as a child, a helpless babe

born in a stranger's stable on a death-cold night

with neither shield nor armored plate

to defend himself in the battle he was to fight

and win, as darkness always yields to light,

AS GOD PREVAILS, AND WRONG  MUST YIELD TO RIGHT!

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