Easter

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?

Copyright Andy Fawthrop 2013