At Christmas some will doubt--
 they'd rather see first-hand
 the legendary holy child
 than hear fine stories told.

 Some legends place a star
 above the manger scene
 to be a beacon guide
 to men who had wise gifts--

 but if a body of heaven
 were wanted to remind folks
 nowadays of this child
 who was gifted and gave,

 why not the unassuming moon,
 whose quiet beaming gives
 us all an inner warmth
 akin to Yuletide happiness?

 Humbly shines this second light,
 relaying solar guiding rays
 to people lost within a night
 who wish to find a path.

 Who hasn't sometimes wished
 to thank the moon for glowing
 above a ride back home
 from church on Christmas Eve?

 The lowly moon a Christmas light?
 How daily seem its rays to us--
 no special star sent from afar
 that never will be seen again.

 If peace and softness were
 required, the moon has both.
 If mystery were needed,
 where could more be found?

 Perhaps someone is in the moon,
 as nursery rhymes suggest--
 let's grant this may be true,
 and this man or woman is you.

 The moon inside you is
 your inner manger birth,
 and you inside the moon
 shine gifts upon the earth.

- Alan Harris