"About Hunger" by Brenardo

 ABOUT HUNGER

A poem about hunger
Is not one of awe, not one of wonder
This thing that grows
Below, Inside
Reflects, Of need Denied
A painful thing to see
A wretched thing to be
In hunger

​A darkness
Sharp, clawing at ones’ being
The lungs, the heart
Messing with the reasoning of the mind
The hope
The emptiness that rises
To the throat
Choking on water
Offering appeasement to the belly
Releasing unrelenting anguish
In a language called despair
The weariness that is telling
The aching, the swelling
The deadly devastation
That stalks in starvation
The extreme
Muffled muted screams
It cries, it sobs
It whimpers in its’ call
The distance
The fierce, intense, insistence
Of the sustenance one needs
Shows Hunger is an enemy to us all
Like the falling of darkness gives rise to gloom and doom
Its’ darker and darker and darker and darker and…

                                         © 2018 Brenardo

Brenardo aka Andre’ B. Taylor, is a native Washingtonian poet and songwriter. He has been writing for over five decades on all matters of life. His written words have been featured in countless newspapers, magazines, and poetry anthologies, and he is a veteran of stage, radio, and television, and United States Navy who believes in being of service to the word which graces him to help others.

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