Poem for Lent - Good Friday

Friday Lent Poem 45 22^nd

 

A deeply personal choice, this poem is on the mass card for my grandmother. It perfectly captures how I feel about her. With every poem I’ve read in the last six weeks, I’ve been reminded constantly that ‘we read to know we are not alone’.

 

Resurrection

Vladimir Holan (Translated by George Theiner)

 

Is it true that after this life of ours

we shall one day be awakened by a

terrifying clamour of trumpets?

Forgive me, God,

but I console myself that the beginning

and resurrection of all of us dead

will simply be announced

by the crowing of a cock

After that we will remain

lying down a while

The first to get up

will be mother

We'll hear her, quietly

laying the fire, quietly putting

the kettle on the stove and

cosily taking the teapot out of the cupboard.

We'll be home once more.

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