The Reason for Hunger

A sestina is specific style of poetry - using a set pattern of rhyming words.

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The Reason for Hunger

by

Zachoia Cooper

(age 16)

If people were never hungry,

People would never work.

Why would they bank, or haul

Loads of limber from place

To place, or  become an engineer?

Hunger is an equalizer; it compels all.

No matter where, in earth all

Labor to be elite. They are hungry

For success, yet they are never near

It. Always busy, never stopping work

Trying to get ahead, get to a better place

Wanting to be ready, stable over the long haul.

They want a house with stairs, a hall

Lined with bedrooms, a kitchen with all

The latest appliances so their place

Is complete and they will never be hungry

For more stuff. They continue to work

Convinced that their goal is attainable, near.

Do people want a souvenir

To take to heaven, to bring a haul

Of possessions to God? “My work

Accumulated this.” Says God, “All

Things are mine.  I made you hungry,

But not for you to bring items to this place.

“I’ve given each human a place

In their soul for Me. If they come near

To Me, I will too. I made them hungry

So their labor would bring a haul

Of glory to Me. How? All

Work from my images vaunts My work.

"My industry shows through their work.

I have put each person in the perfect place,

Whether they work with a computer, an awl

Or a phone, as a craftsman, or auctioneer.

Gain is knowledge of me, not an haul 

Of cash. That is why I made them hungry."

Tis the work of the appetite, when it is near

To place a worker outside his hall

And drive him to labor: for all are hungry.

(Proverbs 16:26)

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