There You Are

You are so humble and quiet most of the time,
that is ‘til all your next door neighbors drop their clothes.
Then suddenly you step forward like royalty -
defiantly dressed in the deepest royal green,
warmly wrapped for winter while
your companions (who’ve finally finished their striptease)
shiver naked and vulnerable.

You are now the confident one, and the others
fade in the fullness of your commanding presence.
Regal and majestic, you stand,
holding court before your servants.
Once unpretentious, now uninhibited.
You are ready to rule and so I bow before your excellence
and worship the One who made you for such a time as this.

Isn’t it just like Him to have something up His sleeve?
Just when I thought the resplendence was over, there you are.
Be the King, Sire Evergreen.