Lent is a time to give up
time in reaching for eternity,
to set aside the minutes
and the hours and make living
space of time, room for the hurt,
neglect and fear that crowd
the days so near about us,
breathing room for reverie
and solitude, sufficient real
estate to stake one’s life upon,
even make a claim on the frontiers
of the beyond. Lent is a time
for mending time and shaping,
bending time toward the wilderness
whose questions clear a way
for silence, its severe
awaiting void.
Lent is…
