Food First - poem for free use
First Food!
My souls secure when I must muse
how words endure from sages cues
about their insight for mans health,
which all men cite yet trade for wealth.
First commandment in all creeds
remains constant for basic needs:
no civil man forsakes the farm
that bears his bran and breeds the balm
of Ceres gift of daily bread
that all men lifts from hungers dread.
The second is like unto it:
societies that dont admit
the need for grain for all their folk,
do thus profane, and pain invoke;
for nevers man calm peace enjoyed
when food is scant and hope destroyed,
not goods nor gods, not gain nor greed
increase the odds to live and breed
if farm and food doth fail, then war
will more preclude till all are poor.
From dying lips the calls arise
for leadership to realize;
that granries filled all else secures,
that soils tilled gives arts tenure,
that civil life needs feeding first,
that crimes made rife by hungers thirst.
For tis truth yet all need examine
Lest we forget until next famine.
30 July 2010
