Poem On a Theme By Robert Herrick

Is it a farce to lean on Lent to receive the black ash Cross on our foreheads, to walk home in humble pride alive to people's puzzlement; to look forward to Holy Week not to correct our weak wills? Is it false to keep a True Lent to tell others it is our intent an unholy act to practice? Is it to quit the dish of our failings , to fill our hearts with sanctimony , to have pride in our many dreadful duties? Is it to conpete for favour on our Lenten voyage of spiritual quest to show the comedy of our worth? Is it to mock materialism that God provides by putting it upon others to show its limitation in our lives? Is it to show false humility for our road of rights not our responsibility, to apologise for the flesh of Christ in case it so offends our fellows? It is to keep a True Lent by the boon of Jesus Christ's Resurrection?