Easter Monday

I have't tried to write poetry in a very long time, but here's what happened today:

Easter Monday

The day Good Friday

Re-enters the picture

After yesterday’s relentless

Joy

We’ve had our yearly glimpse

Into paradise

(at least we have tried)

Today earth-bound

Again

Yesterday we told our pain

To flee away and

Some of us thought it did

And the feeling was

Good

But it only takes 24 hours

For reality to return

And we are up against it

Struggling once more for

Hope

But here’s the good news

Friday’s Man of Sorrows

Is Monday’s Emmanuel

Ready to live with us again in

Faith

It is Easter faith, yes,

But we still are learning

How to sing at the grave

Through our tears

Alleluia.