Ash Wednesday

Remember, dust

Return, dust

Repent, dust

Believe, dust

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday

All corruption

BURN!

All fear and despair

TO ASH!

My bones smolder with

REPENTANCE!

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Ashed

Back to earth
To humble dirt
Mortal sorrows
Heaven borrows
Sufferings revert
To humble mirth


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Path of Swords and Tears

A catholic crossed by ash
A road crossed by palms
Glory in life and death
May all glory be to God


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday

With love we turn our faces to
The one who made us crossed
Crossed the desert 'tween man and God
Devoted to the journey's end


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday!

In the temple in my heart
Washed with His blood
A desert journey I start
A rain dance for the flood


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday

Broken wisps and fettered dreams

Broken minds do unseemly things

Broken bodies wither and die

A broken man on a tree lifted high

Burns the breath and singes the psyche

Lets the desert wandering try me

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday

Dust and ashes penitent

Clothes ripped and souls rent

Time with our brother now is spent

As we start this holy Lent

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Ash Wednesday

Preventing my soul from gaining rust
I walk the desert and taste its dust
Gaining wisdom through Charity's lash
I pray repentance to my Lord with ash



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday

In that waking moment of sense within
Go out and plant peace in the world's din
And sleep comes
And death drums
So that we'll see everyone as dearest kin

With ashes, die to this vain life
Full of grudges and with selfishness rife
And instead be free
Forgive all we see
Our souls will dance with cymbal and fife

With the cross, our Father marks family
With such hope, we march on verily
Faith through pain
We have no gain
For we give out love and joy so merrily



God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Ash Wednesday.

Happy Anniversary to me! Self congratulatory, I know. I decided that since I started this blog on Ash Wednesday, that its anniversary should be Ash Wednesday. So there.

My posting schedule will be daily, as part of my Lenten practice this year.

God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey