Enduring Does Not Lead to Happiness

March 29, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The twin themes for this week are Passover and Easter, which this year are celebrated at the same time. The first night of Passover is the evening of Good Friday, March 30, and Easter Sunday is April 1.

Today’s poem is an Easter poem about the proper way to sacrifice.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Enduring does not lead to happiness.

A person ought not suffer out of duty.

Some choose to sacrifice under duress,

Taking as cruel chance what could be beauty.

Each ought to give for love, as did the Lord,

Reckoning the grace as the reward.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/enduri.html. For more Easter poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/easterpoems.html . For more Passover poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/passoverpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

March 26: Enter Now the King, All but Insane

March 27: Passion Is the Wine, and Love, the Glass

March 28: Easter Is a Time of Love

March 29: Enduring Does Not Lead to Happiness