Easter Sunday

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---En Domingo de Pascuas


Cuentan que en este día
determinado por el baile
de la Luna, el Sol, la Tierra,
---hace pocos siglos
un dios muerto resucitó.

No cosa inaudita
---que un dios hiciera
pero, no como su género
---y superando a su padre,
era a la vez bondadoso y justo.

Murió, dicen, traicionado.

Pero resucitó, dicen sus fieles,
y,
---supongo por lo que veo,
---------sobrevive traicionado.



----------© Rafael Jesús González 2009
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retablo, St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral Basilica, Santa Fe, New Mexico

------On Easter Sunday


They tell that on this day
set by the dance
of the Moon, the Sun, the Earth,
a few centuries past
a dead god rose.

Not a thing unheard of
for a god to do,
but unlike his kind
and out-doing his father,
he was both kind and just.

He died, they say, betrayed.

But he rose, his faithful say,
and,
from what I see,
survives betrayed.



-----© Rafael Jesús González 2009



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