Easter Angel: careless care

Easter Angel: careless care

Photo by Ebadur Rehman Kaium on Unsplash

I published a version of this poem last Easter, and this year I’ve retitled it and have set it to music (see notes, at the end). It really is my music, even though I’ve worked on the production through SUNO.

Here it is:

Setting verse to music means you have to be very careful with the beats and wording, so there are changes between this years’ and last year’s posts. I’ve been working on this through Resound Worship’s 12 Songs Challenge and although I first wrote it all in 3:4, it’s actually in compound time: 9:8 for the verse and 12:8 for the chorus.

I hope it gives you another take on Easter this year.

Now the angel who descended
     through the darkness of the dawn
Didn’t care for sleepy guardsmen
     lying strewn across the lawn,
Didn’t care for Lex Romana
     as the seal was torn away,
 When he rolled the doorway open
     at the breaking of that day.

     But he cared about the women’s
          desperation in the dawning,
     Trudging early through the twilight,
          eyes averted, faces drawn.
     Disappointment.  Sad discovery: for
          the sepulchre was yawning!
     And it swallowed all their courage
          once they knew their Lord had gone.

Now the angel had a message
     for their paralysing fright;
But they couldn’t really hear it
     through his countenance of light.
Though his voice was clear as silver
     with its tidings of relief,
All his lambent blaze was shattered
     on the darkness of their grief.

     Still the angel tried to tell them,
          though he knew they found him
                   frightening,
     Reappearing now beside them
          in his clothes of snowy white.
     Though he spoke of resurrection
          and his face was drawn in lightning,
     It would take a while to trigger
          their tsunami of delight.

So, the angel did his duty
     in the dawning of that day.
And in time the women realised,
     and they hurried on their way.
Later still, they found their Master
      (and the guards their masters, too).
 But by then he’d left in silence,
      as so often angels do.

tpy: Latest 21 March 2026

Notes

If you want the sheet music, please contact me. If you want to give me a better vocals or orchestration, again, please contact me and maybe we can share the midi file.

I composed this on Sibelius, put the midi through GarageBand added my vocals and then put it all through SUNO with the following instructions:

Arrange using the same male tenor voice and maintain the same orchestration. Note that the verse is 9/8 and the verse is 12/8. Stick to tune and tempo. Maintain original pronunciation. Keep to 4 minutes max.

Related posts:

Resound Worship Songwriting Retreat 25: airborne in praise (30 June 2025)

Composing with SUNO (25 August 2025)

Christmas calling (22 December 2025)