Let’s face it this holiday
is made for children
who else would relate to
bursting out of an empty tomb
shouting surprise at all
your friends and relations
and celebrating with a bit of
fecundity shaped chocolate
sprinkled in technicolor vessels
through a fluorescent lawn
an elaborate game of hide and seek
disguised as the cost of
what love can afford
who among us has not known
the void of the world before
we arrived fresh as a lily
and what it took to appear
as if we had always been there
but if you look closely enough
the transformation leaves scars
Joshua Keiter 