A starving Child's Lament

When Jesus said, “Feed the Hungry,”

Didn’t He mean me, too?

Wasn’t He referring my hunger

to you?

 

Didn’t you hear Him?

Didn’t you care?

That I was wasting away

To just skin, bones, and hair.

 

Didn’t you see my eyes pleading?

Wasn’t it plain?

I was crying to you

In my anguish and pain.

 

Did all humankind turn a deaf ear

To the things that He said?

You must have,

Why else am I stiff, cold and DEAD?