Come, Christ,
come here, not far away,
come here to our little suburban town.
No, wait.
Come to Aleppo,
where they need you,
where the children are being slaughtered.
No, wait.
You are already there
among the oppressed.
From the beginning
this is how you come to us:
as the assaulted and discarded,
the crucified.
No, come here
to our white suburban town,
come to us with power and privilege
not to comfort but to awaken us
to care, to act,
for the sake of our little Christ child,
before we have to,
to know
we have to.