\u201c\u2018God did it\u2019 isn\u2019t an explanation,\u201d said Joseph.
\nHe got no account for the baby\u2019s chromosomes,
\nNo description of the mechanism that
\nTransmuted the divine shadow into royal blood.
\n\u201c\u2018The devil made me do it\u2019 would have sounded better to me,\u201d said Joseph,
\nThough it never did him any good
\nWhen he said it to his old girlfriends.
\nIt was a mystery to him,
\nWhat moved him to listen for the rhyme
\nAnd puzzle for the reason
\nThat Mary gave him the news in the manner that she did:
\nA mystery that put him at peace.
\nThere was something in the way she held his hand
\nThat no medical journal article could correlate;
\nSomething in the way she gazed into his eyes
\nThat eluded the grasp of genomic research.
\n\u201cI don\u2019t ask you to believe what I am saying,\u201d she said,
\n\u201cI don\u2019t ask you to take my word for it.
\nI just ask you to love, as if.
\nLove me as if I were yours,
\nLove this baby as if he were yours,
\nAs I love you as if you were mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Love \u2018as if\u201d makes every child divine
\nLove \u2018as if\u2019 fits all in David\u2019s line
\nLive \u2018as if\u2019 this love was meant for you
\nLove \u2018as if\u2019 the Christmas tale is true\u2026.<\/p>\n