Haiku for the hungry
We’re hungry, Moses.
More
than hungry, we’re starving,
here in the desert.
Why did you bring us
to this barren place? We had
good food in Egypt.
We might have been slaves
but we never starved to death.
You’re killing us here!
God heard the complaints;
Fair enough, I’ll give them food,
teach them how to trust.
God had an answer.
I’ll rain down bread from heaven.
You can gather it.
Just collect enough
for each day. Don’t be greedy;
trust for the new day.
Except the sixth day;
gather enough food for two,
rest on the seventh.
There will be meat, too.
At evening quails arrived,
and with the dawn, bread.
‘Twasn’t strictly bread;
flakey stuff, cov’ring the ground,
but you could eat it.
In desert places
you have to keep trusting God.
That was the message.
Ken Rookes 2023
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