Easter
Is there a reason why it’s called Good Friday?
Why shops are closed
And there are restrictions
On what we may buy
Or where we may be permitted to go?
Is there a reason for the Easter Bunny?
Or for the sales of chocolate eggs
And special cards and flowers
Through marketing campaigns
For this Public Holiday?
And why does everything have to stop?
Simply because a man died upon a cross
In Palestine two thousand years ago
Up there upon a hill
Alongside common thieves?
And why is it a moveable feast?
To fall upon different dates each year
Determined by the modern Church
To suit some liturgical calendar
And yet fit snugly round a week-end?
And why these restrictions on our lives?
Why must we endure this wait
Of three Christian religious days
Before the resurrection
Of normality once again?
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