My Easter Heart

Another year, beats fast again my heart,
I hear them witness to His Resurrection,
I witness too the Scripture and the art,
He offers me the proof of His perfection.

He painfully dies and then He conquers death,
His pain, my gain, He takes my sins forgiven,
so like mankind, in my last painful breath,
repentent of my sins, I'm given heaven.

On knowing this, whose heart cannot beat fast?
The Gospel good news--never heard before,
reported every year so it can last
and promise happiness forevermore.

You show me how, O Lord, death I can cheat,
so fast my Easter heart will always beat.

                          by Pete Voelz     4/23/14