Lent
Lent
What does it mean?
To take the desert stance
Then walk this path
Of greatest resistance
To tangle your heart
With the rocks and the snakes
To lie your head down
Where the deceiver wakes
What is the point?
Of self-denial
To clear out the bitterness
Of the dark tempter's vial
To empty our hearts
When life's hard enough
And leave behind all of that
Comfortable stuff
Why would it reset?
My fluttering heart
If I take my self out
Setting ego apart..
Perhaps it's a call
To empty the space
So the cluttering stuff
Is put back in it's place
If I speak to the emptiness
And invite in the weakness
Facing up to desires
Crowding out Holy meekness
So Lent is the time.
A Divine invitation
To reconnect wholly
With High inspiration
The physical joys
And their transient pleasure
Replaced, not in part
But in full Holy measure
This is heavenly mystery;
A desire to bless
In our weakest position
Of the dry wilderness
So, embrace the unfriendly
Welcome the stranger
Feed up the hungry
As if gifts to the manger
For all we can do
When push comes to shove
In the emptying out
Is refilling with love.
Jinjagoliath
Ash Wednesday
16th February 2021
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