Ash Wednesday Fast

Food! Food! I want food:
Strength & solace and renewal!
I crave yearn obsess;
need it to live!!

Yes every word that proceeds from God's mouth
That too; the very breath--but that has not
been taken away. Breathing praying still
available.

But food! How I miss holding slicing chopping
spreading choosing and knowing I can have it
whenever I want.
Never APPRECIATED food so much.

Hunger brings wanting what you can't have
to the viscera.
The povery stuff goes without saying.
I want people everywhere to have food.

Thank you, Adonai, for a tiny Ash Wedesday.