Seekers

[Tony is sound asleep on his full size bed - goose feathered pillow, navy blue pillow case, navy blue bed spread and sheet, with a red comforter. Tony is pleasantly entertaining dreams of getting married to the many girls of his dreams.The Three Wise Men barge into his room, with an almost deafening thud.]

Tony (startled): what the....? (blinking and wiping his eyes)

Three Wise Men: Tony, get up and get on your iPad2!

Tony (miffed):.....what? dude! I was having a freaking dream about Jennifer D! Then I was fitting to dream about Blake Lively, then Kate Winslet, then Kyla Pratt, then that girl Lisa on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills! (longingly) woo boy! She on fiya boy!

Three Wise Men (interrupting): No, we need you to write about us, about the true spirit of Christmas!

Tony (snarling): ....man yall cats tripping, brah man about to go back to sleep. Smell yall sartorially challenged cats lata (laying his head back down, mumbling) man, these bammas rolled up in my bedroom with robes on, talking about Christmas...sons of....

[The Three Wise Men each hit Tony with walking sticks successively until he gets up and starts typing]

Tony (annoyed): OKAY, OKAY, I'LL WRITE YOU GUYS A BLOGPOST! ...kate winslet, I'll be back to standing on the mast of the ship with you when Im done!

Saint Therese, pray for me

---------------/The Three Wise Men Pt2: Seekers - The Thoughts Of The Three Wise Men Chasing After the Star of the Messiah

You dont really know you're living in darkness
dank, deplorable, downcast and depressed
you dont even know the sky is black, that the sun has set
on your dreams once stirring gone stale; sable
.....or that the world is groaning, waiting to give birth
to new hope to combat the cruel charlatan ruling philosophy of its day
boasting about inequalities, bolstering its rationale for abuse while the poor
and the oppressed and the widows and the blind and the lame and the
maimed and the women with incurable menstrual maladies or the peevish
prostitutes
perish for a wanton lack of human respect; the ruling class
oblivious that the "inconveniences"
of a society are opportunities for its greatest prosperity
that tending to the vulnerable is an empires very vitality
but rather the excessive exploitative elegance of wealth at everyone's
expense is elevated - not viewed as entropy
sidestepping languishing babies on roads to luxury, licentiousness
glorified thieves masquerading as politicians
the rabid Romans unraveling
you only hear about the antidote for these ills in mythologies
in tales of hercules, or odysseus.....
until a Jewish prophecy proceeds a perpetuator of peace:
a star from the east
a herald that beckons us to open our eyes and mourn the present state
(illuminating the squalor to which we shamefully have allowed to seduce)
then rejoice
that a new day is dawning,
a light of revelation to the gentiles and the glory of your people Israel
when the outliers, the shunned, the spurned can sup
with Kings and Queens - when indeed they always have been royalty
when a boy and a girl can realistically dream of a better life
in a province that deems every man precious
and full of possibility
until you you see It
you wouldnt know it
you wouldnt understand unless you felt the beams of perspicacity
flowing down on you
but if you saw it, you would know all things
paled in comparison to its offering of peace, panacea
that the world that once was is disgusting, and can never
and should never be the same again
and when you saw it, you would be constrained to do little else
than run,
not out of compulsion
but out of sheer wonder, that the noxious negligible nighttime is over
that the effulgent sky signifies
to any and all who seek after it....
Salvation



(the birth of a Messiah of the world's restoration of all things good)



------------/Matthew 2:1-10
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him." When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him; and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet: "'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'" Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared. And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him." After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.