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Rated: E · Poetry · Religious · #839241
miscarriage & finding a nativity display with no Christ Child
There’s an empty manger there
With all those people looking on.
Of course it’s dark-
What need of twinkling lights and song
Or laughter or awe
Or even simple fear.

There’s no one to say
Be not afraid.

The manger is empty.

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