Hope Is The Hunger

PAD Chapbook Challenge day 14: write a hunger poem ...

Gratitude Conquers the sin of Complaint!
It does not however fill wholly/holy, the hunger!

Longing, a lion that no one can tame

Who knew a roar could be soundless and still

Ocean-like surges without form or name

Honed by a hunger this world cannot fill

Longing, a hurt only heaven can heal

Tugging where love’s count-your-blessing streams pour

Still, in the middle of wonder we kneel

Crying where craving and need plead and war

Gratitude conquers the sin of complaint

Faith feels a Father’s whisper, ‘peace, be still’

Love is a lifeline where else we would faint

Hope is the hunger that heaven will fill

© Janet Martin