ASHES FOR ALL
 Another perspective...

Ash Wednesday

Ashes

Are not just for practicing Catholics

Those cold black smudges

Cross the forehead

And prompt strangers to say

"Excuse me, you have something on your forehead."

Those cold black smudges

Fade into the day

and are washed away

Universal reminders 

of 
the impermanence
of

All that is this

Life

" From ashes you came

From ashes you shall return ."