Lines Written At Easter Poem by Ontic Case

1.

I say, let the night come!
Let the cold moon cower behind its borrowed brightness -
Let its heart be broken
Through its raging loneliness,
Which only the human soul has known.
Let it walk the sky all night,
Like a lonely walk down an empty street,
Let it know the burden of wounded feet.

2.

I say, let the night come!
Let the stars shiver like scared children
Under a shroud of cloud cover;
Let each one suffer
Their own lonely pain.
Let each one hurl themselves from the heavens,
Like the rejected stars they are;
And let them contain the same generous scars
They leave upon the land.

3.

I say, let the night come!
Let the thunder crash and the rain pour heavy upon the land
Let the flood of tears flowing from the sky
Be like the same flood, which holds my grieving eyes.
Let not a single drop of man fall.
As the ephemeral night begins creeping,
And the pale moon loses its light;
As the night begins its weeping,
And the morning embers spread across the widening sky.
I am reminded as the light breaches the horizon,
That no matter how long the night is,
The sun still rises.