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Fabus Indulcet Fames

by Michaelw1two

 Worrisome ways is hunger’s wile,
 the body swoons as in the pot water boils;
 the idea stirs, steam fills the air,
 alas alone, in the water’s rip hunger rides;
 a pinch of salt, and nothing else,
 this mournful dish, a daily task seen to end;
 the dream is stirred, the lid is closed,
 the mind awash with thought’s taste of hunger’s grind;
 meal’s essence, now made of life’s dreams,
 catch the tired soul in visions of days long past;
 the spices, meats, and vegetables,
 that in lost times, so graced the watery brine;
 this aging hand again now stirs,
 the pot of water, salt, and broken down dreams;
 such emptiness, in empty hands,
 in this moment’s mourn, an elder’s teardrops fall;
 to this point, comes America,
 land now awash in exclusionary ways;
 there is nothing else left to share,
 except end of life, for each of profit’s slaves;
 yes, this picture so sorely fits,
 at fifty or so, the masses kneel and die;
 to this within this lands divide,
 those that have, are not charitable at all;
 they will to see the people cry,
 and those below them, crushed between hunger’s claws;
 this is no fallacy, all know,
 in each community, hunger’s lines go long;
 prices rise, and quality wanes,
 a pound of ground, equal to gallon of gas;
 these aged hands again now stir,
 the water’s boil, shakes and rattles the pot’s top;
 to add to this, again one dreams,
 a families meal, made for all in better times;
 tap water and salt, nothing else,
 the meal for each, who could not play profit’s game;
 only in America, no!
 this does exist, and further the numbers grow;
 each of US, know someone who falls,
 into the swirl of having to do without;
 so lend your mind to this extoll,
 make an effort, lend your helping hand to all;
 let no one around you suffer,
 be brave and more than equal to this great task;
 don’t wait for hunger’s face to creep,
 onto the narrowing paths you all now walk.

 Michael Darrell Walker

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