An Easter Poem

Remember what is what like to catch lighting bugs when you were a child?  You found a mason jar and punched holes in the lid and then captured the "light" and then you could go out at night and watch the light in your jar go on and off.  Here is an Easter poem inspired by the memory.

No Light in a Bottle

A poem for Easter

Caught were they by

my childhood glee

The lightning bugs of

Spring were mine

for the taking

So one dark day long

ago another capture happened

Death bottled up the

light and sealed

the jar tight

Darkness held the light

and laughter prevailed

But the maker of

the light

would not have it so

For what was in the

jar was not

the tiny lights of

creation at play

in the evening

No, this was the lighting

of God’s love

And there would be

no bottling up of

of this light

This would be no light

in a bottle

So a clap of thunder

sounded and seals

were broken

and the light

of the world

was released

Resurrection is

loose

Jody Seymour/Easter 2017