Epiphany

After four weeks of FM radio Holiday music, the idea dawned on me that Holiday themed poetry might someday result in repeat royalties.
Coincidence - Epiphany starts tonight!

I agree the humor of the included cartoon detracts from the introspective solemnity of the poem, so just think of it as being here though not directly related.


Epiphany

I wrote "Twenty-MCB-Seventeen,"
  in purple chalk on the door,
In hopes three wise men might come
  with blessings just once more

On the day there were three knocks,
Two women and a man, cloth coats, 
  frosty breathed on trepidatious ice,
"We bring a messege, of love, hope from the future,
  for the new year, it was written in the Bible,"

I pitied them having climbed up
   my glazed and uninviting steps, so said,
"Ok, I’ll take the tract but we’re not inviting you in"

Later I answered Christine by saying,
"Yes, it was them,"

We read the piece but did not bother
  look op the passages it quoted,
I found myself at odds of any message
  it had needing to be noted,

Yet all I wondered was,
   has any grace been here received?
Perhaps was it my view of blessed
  by which I find I am deceived