A poem for Easter
I hope you have a meaningful Easter. I hope you experience the richness of the Story - the movement from darkness and death towards light and life.
Smack in the middle of all this comes Holy Saturday. I wrote a poem on Holy Saturday a few years back - here is a newly revised version.
HOLY SATURDAY
And this holy Saturday is
An elastic band, stretched taut
A kingdom held back
just one more day
kinetic
energetic
propulsion potential
The hand
calms the waves
The voice
stills the voices
Not yet,
not yet
But soon
and then ... oh, then!
You will let fly the smile of love
Zip!
To the back of the head
Snap!
But not yet
The band may yet break
The dark is still pregnant
A belly stretched taut
Soon.