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What I want to know is simply this:<\/div>\n
Who rolled away the stone?<\/div>\n
Did Jesus, reviving from the touch of Judas\u2019 kiss<\/div>\n
turn miracle to muscle on his own?<\/div>\n
Or did some savior of the Savior moce the rock<\/div>\n
to let life enter from outside \u2013<\/div>\n
Resurrection as a sort of picking of the lock<\/div>\n
That separates the bridegroom from his waiting bride?<\/div>\n
Perhaps the stone itself got bored<\/div>\n
with waiting for a happy ending to the story,<\/div>\n
And rolled itself away, to set the body it had stored<\/div>\n
Upon the royal road to new life and eternal glory.<\/div>\n
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You might say it does not matter,<\/div>\n
But when you are waiting in the dark<\/div>\n
A person wants to know if Life is company or caller,<\/div>\n
The friend you trust to seek you, or the waiting spark<\/div>\n
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Lynn Ungar in Blessing the Bread<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-2363167202555327277?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\")
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