Food
©May 27th, 2020
By Vijaya Sundaram
Give food, give water.
You do not need to be great
You do not need to be talented,
You do not need God
You do not need learning
You do not need plaudits.
All you need is to be able to feed
And give succor to someone.
And listen as their hunger is appeased.
Listen well.
Can you hear it?
It’s the air whispering thanks
All the atoms of the hungry dead
Whispering a susurrus of thanks.
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