Bread

We feed on the unfulfilling bread
  hoping it will fill but it never does
The bread of accusation, the bread
  of blame, of self-righteousness
It never fills because the bread
  of life does not chase after these
It is the bread of justice, the bread
  of peace, of unexpected return
We cast out these crumbs
  hoping to see a return of peace
It is nourishing to eat from this
  it sustains us when there is injustice
Fear, oppression, forgetting our
  neighbor in the name of greed
We need to keep sustaining
  ourselves with the rich bread
Which knows it cannot be forgotten
  because time and again people have
Proved its living power to go on
  beyond themselves and feed another

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