April Poetry Challenge 2021: Day Four

 

Day 4 Prompt: Active

Form: Free Verse

"Easter 2021"

Easter morning

All the eggs have been found

Worship filled our souls

I’m out walking, trying to remove the age from my legs

It has been

A year since the world locked down

I notice some homes have

Out-of-state plates

While others have nothing but dark windows

How many stories have ended in the last 

356 days

How many lives 

began in those same thousands of hours

I feel the contradiction of this world

As the sun warms my face

With the promise of a new beginning

Yet, the breeze cools my neck with the memory of winter

Our stories are solid beneath our feet

But flow together like cirrus clouds in the sky above me

My name 

unknown to almost everyone

My title of father, though, has cemented generations to come

I don’t know 

If my neighbors see me reach my front step

As I open the front door

My family knows I’m home

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How many times has this word been written

or that one

or the one at the end of this line

We gather ideas like Easter Eggs

to display in our own hand basket

When placed side by side

one can see that there are no new eggs

only the arrangement differs

Every word written has seen the page before

Every letter now worn like a child’s favorite blanket

Yet, the Easter Bunny tempts us with the promise

of a golden egg

Waiting for us to find

    behind the books

    on a shelf

    tucked inside a drawer

The hunt exhilarates us

Happy in every discovered egg

    but yet

        somehow just short of total joy

But you’ve read that before