Stone Moved Before Sunrise

by The Devotional Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

They came carrying spices, prepared to tend the dead. Dawn had barely found the garden path. The question between them was practical: who will move the stone? Grief expected a sealed place. Instead, morning opened where no hand had planned it. Easter begins with women walking toward sorrow and finding the entrance changed.
53 words · 12 lines · Free Verse
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