Easter and Time
By Jack Joseph Smith
There are those who embody time
Those who will never come again
Certainly not through a close up
Say over fifty years you look
Greatness that walks once
Viewing film we touch
that which is receint
Winston Churchill, T.E. Lawrence
Mohammed Ali, Frank Sinatra
Jack Kennedy, Martin Luther King
With all the violence
They are love instead
And so quickly they are close
While so quickly they could go
Yet with Jesus as the solitude
of your life
You have been made
also ancient in kind
There in the same demention
wherein we perceive our own
living death after death as
a companionship with
the eternal body
of Christ
And here at Easter
Year after year He
re-enters ever new worlds
As one should know a truth
when its very form
has stood within their step
And there you have the physical
From the Garden to the Donkey
To a Supper, a Cross and a Tomb
And all that leads in tandem
To the parade of Easter
And all that comes after
Is what those with the experience
of drought and famine
Know as the sweetness
of thunder