Christmas, A Long Time Coming (in progress)

Longing glances, stumbling feet, flashing swords
Thorns for those Eden-dwellers, paradise relinquished
Blessing, Precept, Curse, Promise
Staggering words
Firstborn joy, sibling hate, guilty exiled
New line, favored one, obedient man
Grief, judgment raining down
Cypress and pitch, pitch and rise
Two and two and two and two
Some in sevens
Covenant sign, colors bowed
Breaking dismal clouds apart
Everlasting promise
Called out, led on
A nation from one
Who had no son, yet the promise
It hung there, given
And laughing, they became three
Impossible life demanded
Withholding nothing, made greater, rescued from the depths
Branches ever growing
Bending, brothers, nations, dreams and battles
Sold, and yet greatly used to save
Evil redeemed,
But worldly kings suppose greatness
Broken backs, death sentence
Water saves, burning bush a holy place
I AM WHO I AM
And the staff and the signs make a way
Towering watery walls, chariots crushed
A people passed over,