Easter poem

In memoriam Dewey R. Hemphill

A dormant seed is sunken 'neath
The humus decomposing.
The body buried in the dark--
A hopeful presupposing.
The end of life, the bitter cold
Of Winter insurrection,
But what has died shall rise again
In Springtime resurrection.

The Day foreshadowed by the Night,
The sapling by the seed,
We gain the everlasting life
In death’s mortality.
A dormant seed is sunken 'neath,
Its death the stipulation
To gain the Light of Life and be
Immortalized creation.