Man Sleeping Outside of a Church
A Christmas poem
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2 min readDec 19, 2022
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Jesus is a homeless man,
viewed as a pariah by some,
the lamb of God by others,
and often makes his bed
outside of a church.
He despises the wooden cross,
but hangs from it anyway.
He embraces the destitute,
cares for their burns and bruises —…
