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The Parable The Vision The Journey The Truth The Dawn The Prayer

The Truth of the Stranger
by John Shea

Magi only journey by night
like guarded secrets of dreams
and, at morning, always arrive from the East,
the rising sun at their backs,
haloing them in light.

You will have to shade your eyes
to watch them, step by step,
approach you with their request.

They are not wise in usual ways.
They cannot make a chair,
their soups are regrettable.
It is conjunctions, symmetries, balances
that interest them.
Heaven shakes, earth quakes.
As above, so below.
A star moves across the sky
and they are in the saddle
convinced an earth child has yanked a string.
They come from a country of kites.

They also puzzle prophecies,
living in perpetual pregnancy,
awaiting the births of the predicted.
They unroll ancient parchments to find new babies,
then read the wrinkles of the newborn
as testimonies of the past promises.
They are not your average observers.

That is why they have come to you
why they have come to us all.
Your replacement has been born.
They need your help
to tell them where they can find the child.
Lost in higher logic
they will not see you blanch or notice you are troubled.
They want to teach you the lost art of homage,
how freeing it is to be prostrate before promise.
They are strangers
who have come to tell you
the truth you have forgotten.

Do not try to trick them,
coaxing from their enthusiasm
murderous information.
It will not work.
Wise Men always go home
by another route.
You will end by slaughtering hope
and you will not see
the fleeing child, your child,
reach for their gifts.

"The Truth of the Stranger" is reprinted by permission from John Shea, author of Starlight. To Preview.

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