Praying To Eat

Sitting in silence
Trying to be patient
After standing in a hot line
For a hot meal
Instead of playing with hot wheels
With memories of being thrown 
Into a dumpster
To dive for food as a 3 year old
Before they started bleaching produce to kill us 
To protect us from the precious garbage.
 We knew we could get sick from it

Do not poison our food to protect us.

This night in church i wonder
Why must I pray for food?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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