Gestation

Germinating

Incubating, separating, replicating cell

Zygote larger on the inside

Than it seems

Perfect, pure, immaculate

Carried in a tabernacle

Spotless as the snow

Imperceptibly, yet so rapidly

Seed containing fullness

Ripening o’er nine months

Waiting, while you’re germinating

We are longing for your coming

Child Emmanuel

With us in the darkness

Of Mary’s verdant womb

Unseen, unheard, but present

Heaven in this room