"in pace"

many Easter surfaces
textures
are soft

bunnies
chocolates
baskets
(grass
inside)
marshmallows
even eggs

yet how harsh to get here
via Triduum

even the more bearable parts

yet
the garden
blood
in prayer

arrest and condemnation

the death
the awful death
struggling to breathe while pushing
legs up
on the long branch of
the cross

then burial
finality
everything over
waiting only
for
remnant followers
to be finished
too

then
at the tomb
open

persons to say
to go on saying
that
the one
was there has
risen

resurrection once for all and
now

reason for faith

jubilance
and alleluia

so
maybe
through all of that
even the grander celebration
some
softness
is appreciable
for
pleasure and for comfort

if
catharsis then catharsis
though there’s more

while not
to take from doctrine
or
from liturgy

maybe
frankly
though
to trade a little on
any
easier aspects of
the peace that passes understanding
promised by
today

clc


Philippians 4:7

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