Australia

Travel

  1. You left your home
    To keep your child from harm,
    Through barren waste
    As Herod did his worst,
    You were exiled
    While innocents were killed
    To a strange land
    Hoping to find a friend.
  2. I kiss my boy
    A silent, swift goodbye
    And set a steady
    Hundred the whole day;
    Distance undoes attachment
    And I want
    Some alien comfort
    Now we are apart.
  3. Mother of mothers
    Save me from disasters,
    Protect me from my mindless
    Kind of sadness,
    So that I travel
    Thinking of your exile
    And safely come back home
    To Bethlehem.