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Easter amalgam
Our lives are split yet held as one in love,
Each day we live a diff’rence strange, apart.
This earth and all it holds – below, above –
Reveals a truth that’s hard for mind not heart:
When light and dark are formed in day and night
Whate’er we will, we cannot always stand.
The sun will set and take away its light
To send us into shadow’s other land.
We each must rest and take our needful sleep
There is no choice for this is nature’s way;
No work or talk: we enter deathlike deep
With only dreams to lead us back to day.
Here Easter’s truth releases us from pris’n –
Our Friday’s God of death is now aris’n!
© Neil Thompson 2026