Darkness & Dust

Ash Wednesday
"Yet even now" declares the Lord, return to me with all your heart...
Joel 2.12

Darkness creeps into our lives by many avenues

We struggle, as we go against the grain to follow You

The dust that we are thinks ourselves to be true

But what we need is to become clean, like new

And with moods like midnight, when we can't see the blue

Or the green, yellow, red, only black is the hue

Of our sin and brokenness, we are crowded with a few

Desperate, we cry for one to be with us through

Savior, Lord, we pray this is what You will do

Photo: Tynemouth Priory and Castle, England.  Ruins from the 13th century.