Easter Poem: How the Virus Stole Easter

Happy Easter everyone! - My mom sent me this poem by Kristi Bothur the other day and it was too good not to share! - How the virus stole Easter - Twas late in ‘19 when the virus began Bringing chaos and fear to all people, each land. - People were sick, hospitals full, Doctors overwhelmed, no one in school. - As winter gave way to the promise of spring, The virus raged on, touching peasant and king. - People hid in their homes from the enemy unseen. They YouTubed and Zoomed, social-distanced, and cleaned. - April approached and churches were closed. “There won’t be an Easter,” the world supposed. - “There won’t be church services, and egg hunts are out. No reason for new dresses when we can’t go about.” - Holy Week started, as bleak as the rest. The world was focused on masks and on tests. - “Easter can’t happen this year,” it proclaimed. “Online and at home, it just won’t be the same.” - “Pooh pooh to the saints,” the world was grumbling. “They’re finding out now that no Easter is coming. - “They’re just waking up! We know just what they’ll do! Their mouths will hang open a minute or two, And then all the saints will all cry boo-hoo. - “That noise,” said the world, “will be something to hear.” So it paused and the world put a hand to its ear. - But the sound wasn’t depressed. Why, this sound was triumphant! It couldn’t be so! But it grew with abundance! - The world stared around, popping its eyes. Then it shook! What it saw was a shocking surprise! - Every saint in every nation, the tall and the small, Was celebrating Jesus in spite of it all! - It hadn’t stopped Easter from coming! It came! Somehow or other, it came just the same! - And the world with its life quite stuck in quarantine Stood puzzling and puzzling. “Just how can it be?” - “It came without bonnets, it came without bunnies, It came without egg hunts, cantatas, or money.” - Then the world thought of something it hadn’t before. “Maybe Easter,” it thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Easter, perhaps, means a little bit more.” - The churches are empty, but so is the tomb - And Jesus is victor over death, doom, and gloom. - Happy Easter! - Be blessed and stay stoked 😎🤙