Easter Bunny

Easter and bunny are almost inseparable. The Easter bunny or Easter rabbit is a familiar sight during Easter. No matter where you go during Easter season, you are likely to find churches, homes and even shops decked with bunny cutouts, toys, streamers and more. So, what makes bunnies an indispensable part of Christmas celebrations. As per the legends, the tradition of Easter bunny bringing Easter eggs is an old one. It is said that the Easter bunny goes door to door during Easter to deliver egg, candy and toy baskets to the young kids and hid eggs in their house. Easter bunny was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Frankenau's De ovis paschalibus. There are several works of literature, including poems and folklores dedicated to Easter bunny. The poem 'Easter Bunny' written by Mary Brandolino recounts the trials and tribulations of an Easter bunny who loses favor of his owners. This poem narrates the downfall of a bunny, how he was loved, cared for and pampered when he was received in the household for the first time during Easter and how with time the affection diminished and he found himself confined to a cage most of the time. The raddled bunny was shocked to see the sudden shift in affection of his masters and often wondered as to what went wrong in a household where used to be the apple of the eye. To know more on the plights of the Easter bunny, trail the lyrics below.

Easter Bunny

I remember Easter Sunday
It was colorful and fun
The new life that I'd begun
In my new cage.
I was just a little thing
When they brought me from the store
And they put me on the floor
In my cage.
They would take me out to play
Love and pet me all the time
Then at day's end I would climb
In my cage.
But as days and weeks went by
I saw less of them it seemed
Of their loving touch I dreamed
In my cage.
In the night outside their house
I felt sad and so neglected
Often scared and unprotected
In my cage.
In the dry or rainy weather
Sometimes hotter sometimes colder
I just sat there growing older
In my cage.
The cat and dog raced by me
Playing with each other only
While I sat there feeling lonely
In my cage.
Upon the fresh green grass
Children skipped and laughed all day
I could only watch them play
From my cage.
They used to take me out
And let me scamper in the sun
I no longer get to run
In my cage.
Once a cute and cuddly bunny
Like a little ball of cotton
Now I'm grown up and forgotten
In my cage.
I don't know what went wrong
At the home I did inhabit
I just grew to be a rabbit
In my cage.
But they've brought me to the pound
I was once loved and enjoyed
Now I wait to be destroyed
In my cage.