The Light of their darknesses walked the streets among them healing all

As do we, they remembered and tried to right their lives since the Fall

But for our dear suffering predecessors, their Light did not last

But was plucked from them in their powerlessness leaving a great void so vast

The Light extinguished within their aching hearts searching for the way

We too lower our heads in humble prayer bringing to mind all that happened on that day


In the beginning, all was void, all was dark,

Then the Light of the holy candle in the center began to spark

There was an illumination, a new Light of the Easter Candle

Its magnificence was almost more than we could handle

Touching each of us, lighting our faces

A realization of hearts filled with joy as we stood in our places


Light guiding us wonderously to contemplate what we should remember

When we each doused our candle of the hope-filled flickering ember

One heart after another brightening within the soul's dark night

Waiting, waiting for that true Easter Light

We had walked blindly and had stumbled through the year

The answers to our questions and our salvation we knew grew near


As the Easter Light shone brighter all in prayer were revealed

There was our sister, our brother, we all wanted to be healed

For His all-enveloping Grace for which we so long

Tell of new life, of growth, of hope, of song

Oh Happy Heart now free of your self-made prison

He is Risen