Based on Job 42:6.
Lent is my season
of defeat.
For dust I am
and to dust
I shall return.
Death is inescapable;
not even science
can prevent it.
I look in life’s mirror
and see all I have done.
I repent in dust and ashes,
and cling to God’s promise.
I am not marked by sin,
but the cross on my forehead.
Thus, this season of ash,
I look toward the tomb.
The Lutheran Column 