Tuesday, April 28

THE LAST EMPTY BOWL


From your barren landscapes
with only the soupy air for nourishment,
and dust to breathe,
tradition succumbs to a final meal.
With a silver spoon, like a star,
and wooden bowl of the Earth,
rare status,
where fingers mostly bled,
to grab and feed.
Her silver gamely shines,
stirring imagined porridge inside a mock home.
Only starvation and disease awaits her out there.
Bereft eyes, going sullen, seek rescue,
despite forsaken promises and dry tears.
Can no one help?
Like the moon,
crescent reflections
spill out of her desolation,
sent splintered,
by will of spirit,
pride with each sipping motion,
showing us her hope,
that we can give
a long lasting peace and salvation.
She fills warm memories to the rim,
and watches them fade,
into the long persevering humility
of so many,
hurt, and broken.
History is not forgotten,
but only strangled moans
and cursing divides present days.
No strength left to fight for her country.
Even if she took a just stand she would die.
Bless you. May God Bless you.
Aching sympathy from my cozy niche
I weakly comfort her in bright company
I see her dead children chasing each other, happy,
screaming,
tempting her always come play with them,
have fun, to eat, drink, and hug.
The eternal love that grows in her heart,
soothing her angry mind,
keeping alive her burdened soul,
feeds her collapsing body,
and with wings sheds her worldly toil.

2 comments:

jason said...

Hi. On behalf of the team at BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite, I wanted to say thank you so much for participating in the Hunger and Hope event.

Your post was chosen as one of the ten best and a link to your post has been included on the BlogCatalog blog as well as the Copywrite, Ink. blog.

Thanks again for participating!

Lillie Ammann said...

This poem touches our emotions powerfully.

Congratulations that this post was among the top 10 in Bloggers Unite for Hunger and Hope.