On the Prospect of Not Celebrating Easter this Year
Will Christ not rise again
This year
For us?
Is he in fact
Still
Dying among us?
In those succumbed
To COVID-19.
Or is he
Still
Dead?
Is he in the tomb
With us?
Quarantined from life
Before rising
Infected and decaying
With the virulence
Of toxins?
Of needy-greedy panic
Grabs at shopping shelves?
As panicked voices
Constantly ask questions
What about this?
Or that?
What now?
What now indeed.
Will there be no people
As the body of Christ
Holding their candles
Light in the Lord?
Signs that Christ
Has risen
And shines
In us and
Among us?
Or are we consigned
To private piety,
In our own place,
So foreign
To genuine faith
That seeks to hold us together
As parts of the body
Of the Risen Lord?
What of this distant,
Isolated,
Seclusion?
Dying alone
In the dark
And waiting
In the tomb?
When will we rise?
When shall we hear?
Magdalene’s cry:
“I have seen
The Lord!
And heard his voice!
Simon C.J. Falk 21 March 2020
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