Power hungry men
make rules
make decisions
make war
from within their hunger
not from deprivation,
but from excess
More is never enough,
hungry since their power
is not valid
comes not from them
but is grabbed and claimed
and vapid and fragile
Real lives in the balance
people hungry just for food
and water
earth, fire, air -
enough to live,
to call into relationship
with praise
People only want to live
in places without fear
but power hungry men
like hungry ghosts
cannot be satisfied
by just enough
enough to sing and sit
and watch the clouds
and hear the birds
and touch the soil
these simple, sacred dreams
are only fodder
for the scavenging
ideologies that serve
to drive the threshing machines
that flatten all resistance
into stubble
broken stalks of
things that might have grown
if power meant
the way we know ourselves
the way we show respect
the way we humbly learn
and carry teaching
© Tracy Hudson 2023
