Happy Easter!

My poem for Easter 2023.

Apr 09, 2023

This Easter, I've been reflecting on quiet. On silence. I think we often view silence from God as something negative. Like it’s a rebuke. I'm fascinated by the confidence God must have in his name to allow for silence. How incredible that he doesn't have to fill every moment with sound.

I hope you find time to listen for the silences around you and find something wonderful there.

Happy Easter.

He is Risen Indeed.

~ AK

Vie and clamour

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They who are insecure
shout the
loudest
even among the 
gods.

Yet, as the mob
howled
demanded more than 
their pound of flesh
more than the worst
earthly pain:
humiliation
complete and total
rejection, abject suffering 
blood

You were silent. 

Oh but how you could have howled.
Let rage and scorn froth from
your mouth, name the shameless
hypocrisy, justify your
begotten self.

Yet, when you did speak
from bleeding gums
tongue swollen as the whip
marks on your back, you 
whispered 
words of absolution
welcomed us to
paradise.

This part of your nature, your
silence
quiets the human soul 
speaks a better word than
all the kingdoms with too small
queens and kings who yet vie and 
clamour.

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