Who were they,
These 3 distinguished riders
Trekking across unknown lands
And desert sands?
How did they get to be together?
Was it a pub conversation,
Or a yearn for adventure?
“They’d seen the star”, they said.
Would we do the same?
See a strange phenomenon, attribute meaning, leave our homes and travel?
We’d have technology of course –
GPS, phones, perhaps a back up of paper maps and compass
A support vehicle or two, ‘ just in case’.
Their unerring belief in the mission is awesome.
And at the journey’s end?
No palace, no prestige, no information board –
Nothing at.
‘Just’ an (extraordinary) ordinary scene:
A new baby, hidden away in a back yard,
In an animal stall.
Jo Hansen 