The Geometry of Hunger

Walk nine miles

and then one more

food is always far

to feed a hungry family

 

Borrowed shoes

is what we wear

food brings us closer

distance is always shared

 

One single bowl

in many hands

food travels in circles

in the geometry of hunger

 

Three silver coins

for a loaf of bread

food is richness

in the common currency

 

Nourishment never lies

in empty eyes

food is  truth

economy is the falsity

 

Food is what we are

food is what we become

eat and we are eaten

in the consuming society

 

Without food everything

becomes nothing

food is always

something for someone

 

Hunger is never

a lack of food

it is the greedy denial

of soul generosity

 

False is the equation

that doesn’t add up

food by the number

of hands left empty

 

Food was the first

of created things

in the origins of Eden

hunger was the second.