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Friday

Jesus was dead - the soldiers made that certain.

They wouldn't let a criminal survive

Particularly a nasty trouble maker

Who claimed to be a King whilst still alive.

And so they broke the legs of the survivors

To finish them off before the sunset's glow

Then handed all three bodies on for burial

To anybody willing to do so.

But then all hell broke loose after the Sabbath.

The tomb was empty everybody said

Even the priests who'd set a guard upon it

And wanted him kept well and truly dead.

Rational thought can bring a thousand reasons

And Science knows the way things ought to be

But neither law nor logic seem convincing

For what went on at Easter Thirty-Three.

Brian Hick April 2012

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