EASTER.
Which came first?
Easter or the egg.
Which came first?
Chocolate or the egg.
Why an egg anyway?
Chocolate bunnies,
Chocolate funnies.
Silver foil
Ripped.
Chocolate sun-days,
Easter mum-days.
Not that kind of egg.
Not procreation,
More recreation.
Chocolate lips,
Chocolate faces
Melted religion,
Empty spaces
Empty eggs and
Empty churches
Silver foil
Ripped,
As religion lurches
From one lie to another.
Chocolate wins
Pays for children’s sins,
Shared with brothers
Of the holy chocolate egg.
Replacing fabled stories
Of former religious glory.
Silver foil
Ripped
Do you believe
If you drop to your knees
There will be reprieve
For your sins?
Which came first?
Religion or the egg
Which came first?
Faith or the egg.
Why religion anyway?
A man,
A cross
A child,
An egg.
Silver foil
Ripped
Why religion anyway?
Chocolate wins.

© By: - Pete Slater.   2013.