Resurrection Garden

Author Julia McMullen

Resurrection Garden

Julia McMullen

Mary mistook you for a gardener
where she wept among tender blooms
and bumblebees, yellow bodies
hard at work, collecting sweetness
while she grieved.

Did you wake from death 
and smell the flowers, fragrant
in the newness of morning?

Did you wander past the stone
and drink deeply of the garden air?
Did you kneel down in the dirt?
Did you find weeds and spare them?

Did your hand brush the soft petals 
of delicate flowers as you prayed 
for the first time since your death? 

Mary’s sobs outside the tomb 
must have broken the quiet stillness 
of Easter morning—rising up over 
the chatter of birds. 

How much I am like her, Lord,
to weep, and not recognize you
through the tears welling in my eyes.

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