daily bread and the impossible

gracious Friend
open thou our lips
against all injustice
and our mouth shall
overflow with love
for the Divinity in our
fellow comrades
who the ruling class
are blind to
and feed not
when they are hungry
the ruling class who encloses
and violently evicts
the poor and the unhoused

make speed to save us
from the Landlord's schemes
make haste to help us
in our struggle

gracious Neighbour
we approach to bother you
to drum on your locked door
awake your children in bed
for the resurrection is nigh
the Kindom is at hand
the oppressed and unhoused
stranger is hungry
lend us bread to feed
our new neighbour
three loaves
for a new friend
the body of Christ
for our new comrade
the Spectre is here

we know you do not give
snakes instead of fish
scorpions instead of eggs
for your economy of love
is not an economy of commodities
of exchange value
that monetizes the poisons
of the earth and profits off
destruction

you are the loving Mother
of children
you've taught your young
to care for the stranger
the orphan, the widow
demand bread
for these hungry

and demand so much more
for we are realistic
we demand the impossible
for another world is possible
the meek shall inherit the earth
all the world that's owned by idle drones
is ours and ours alone
we are the toilers that laid the stones
the critters that crawled
and built our homes
the fungi, the trees, 
the birds of the sky,
the rivers, frogs, and
bottle flies
this world is ours, not to slave in,
but to foster and together own,
to love and care for
as our home

we all need a home
demand a home

my mom baked this bread

prayer based on Luke 11 and Matthew 25