Ashes - Poem

   Beneath the font of water
   rests a huge bowl of ashes.
   In my mind's eye I run to it
   and grab the ashes,
   throwing them all over my body and
   screaming
   I AM DUST! I AM DUST! I AM DUST!

   I tell you of my dirt and my envy and
   my shame.

   But even desolation eludes me
   as I again take my focus from
   my ashen self
   and return to the font of water.
   It is so much larger, it can cleanse any
   ash.

   The mindflash is over, and
   I have not moved from my corner.
   Yet I am weary, slightly smudged
   and I am somehow at ease in my
   uneasiness--
   finding perspective and keeping you
   in sight.

Jill Maria Murdy West Bend, Wis.

COPYRIGHT 2004 National Catholic Reporter
COPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group

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