The Antidote - Tony Matthews: Your Composer of Note

Once a long time, long ago

Into the world did enter.

Mary's boy child all aglow

Attached to a placenta.

For this was a human child

He would have screamed for food.

Inside the swaddling clothes defiled

He would have peed and pooed.

His mother would have fed him,

The way that they know best.

No Cow & Gate around that time

She would have used her breast.

For this was a human child

That came upon this earth,

With all the shame that is involved

When teenage girls give birth.

For no wise men were there that night,

Nor was there any snow.

I even doubt there was a light,

Around his head aglow.

For this was a human child

Born in a normal time

It’s destiny, to go to hell,

And face a devil’s grime.

Inside the gates of hell, he’d fight

The hate of aeons hurled.

The minions of the darkest night

Would battle for a world.

For only could a human child

That’d seen and conquered death

Could take on that nightmare world

And once again draw breath.

But for now, this little child

Just born, a bloodied mess

Is in the arms of mum and dad,

Enjoying their caress.

[Tony Matthews 2005]