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Dust and Ashes
Dust.
That is what we are.
And spirit.
It is the ash that smothers and stifles
sight and sense
when we ignore the spirit.
Lent’s forty days
to see a different way
and feel a different gravity
when love and truth and pity
lighten our heavy dust–choked selves.
It is the road to Calvary
and the empty tomb.
There is no other.
Without spirit
there is only dust.
With God, Resurgam.
© Neil Thompson 2017