In a wonderful blog post, which you can find at http://everysquareinch.net/christmas-the-sufferers-holiday/, the author describes Christmas as the sufferer's holiday. Christ came to suffer for us. He came into a broken world full of suffering to bring an end for all the pain. He has broken sin's curse in eternity and one day will end its existence in this world. Christmas is truly a holiday about suffering and its hopeful conclusion, one glorious day.
Btw, Kyrie and Yahweh do rhyme if they are pronounce correctly. :) The word Kyrie is latin for "Lord" Yahweh" means "I am". Every stanza of the poem reads "Lord I am".
Kyrie
Evil and wretched pain do us flay
Fragmented, fractured; filled with dismay.
Yahweh
Emmanuel come to stay
Entering our rotting vessels of clay
On this----the sufferer's holiday.
Kyrie
We are sin's most piteous prey
Tormented by folly; easily led astray.
Yahweh
He that calms fears; does sorrow allay
Penetrating the fray
On this----the sufferer's holiday.
Kyrie
Intimacy with affliction You did convey
As with grief You did Yourself array
Yahweh
Death's conqueror in desperate agape
Delivering hope's sweet bouquet
On this----the sufferer's holiday.
Kyrie
The glorious riches of Your limitless grace You display
For in You the darkness can hold no sway.
Yahweh
He who did the fearsome price pay
To carve out faith's narrow way
On this----our suffering Savior's holy day.