Sing

Mary sang Magnificat passing protests in the street

Mary sang Magnificat
while Herod made sacrifices at the temple 

Mary sang Magnificat
as corrupt tax collectors like Levi—named for priests
—robbed her family

Mary sang the Magnificat
as Herod dashed the heads of her son’s peers 

Mary sang Magnificat
as her son was murdered by the state

Mary sang Magnificat
as an occupying policeman looked on her dead son
and said, This is God’s Son 

Mary sang, My spirit rejoices in my Savior.
From what, in her life, was she saved?

Mary sang Magnificat—to her daughters-in-law
grinding grain with her sons’ sons at their breasts—sang
to men like Matthew

and Luke who listened over meals and wrote down
an orderly account to remember His mercy. 

Scatter my thoughts turn my throne send me away
singing