Borrowed Ashes Lent
What’s your fire, the force that empties you to ash? The options are only two: both fear and love consumes; it’s up to you to choose. The wood of this cross goes up in dancing flames and after the forest burns wildflowers first return and seeds of dead trees open. Burnt our broken dreams and signed upon our foreheads to remind us who we’ll be when we get to where we left. Fire throws its light on faces that see faith everywhere is everything raised an aching offering raised on fractured wings. Help us wait and pray then help us pray to wait, for we’re too deadly quick to ease the slightest itch while deeper wounds go missed. At night desert cold invades speechless stars to this a savior’s sent to this the Spirit sends to this the world is lent. ++++++++++++ A video musical reflection of this poem is found here -
Grace Colella
Posted at 01:32h, 19 FebruaryExcellent!
My favourite lines are: “both fear and love consumes; it’s up to you to choose” and
“for we’re too deadly quick to ease the slightest itch, while deeper wounds go missed”
Wisdom.
JYC
Posted at 02:38h, 19 FebruaryThank you Greg for a twin-gift of poem and song : )
graeme quinlan
Posted at 05:39h, 19 February“To this world we are lent,” one of the lines of the song that struck me . It means we are here on God’s time. Therefore, it is up to us to make the best of out time here.Our life can be made . It can be broken and it can be healed.When we received the ashes of renunciation of our worldly sinfulness . May we get to where we left.And return to Him who bought us here.
Peter Chouinard
Posted at 07:01h, 19 FebruaryWonderful poem Greg! I didn’t see anywhere to access the music video.
CJ Martin
Posted at 23:27h, 08 SeptemberPeter – click the word “here.” 🙂
Peter Bisson
Posted at 14:26h, 19 FebruaryThank you very much Greg!
Eric Jensen
Posted at 16:17h, 20 FebruaryOne of your best, Greg!
Great closing line!
Correction: both fear and love consume