Healing Our Hunger
Imagery and Poetry for Ending Food Insecurity
By Barbara L. Chapman

Her charms are never ending . Her power to delight an eternal story of love .
She challenges us and gifts us all at the same time .
The Earth and her inhabitants share breath as one .
And the when spirit feels stretched beyond the imaginable allotment of pain she soothes us .
She soothes us with a light rain calming and delicate .
she soothes us with the joyous brightness of the sun warming and exciting .
She soothes us with the wildness of thunderstorms and setting our own wildness free .
She gifts us with so many things .
Every moment , every breath
Dear Earth
When I see a face with the weight of sorrow it is a moment of seeking to love .
If welcomed into your eyes there may be softening , a gentle glow when you know you are visible .
When I see a smile easing itself out from the depths then the connection becomes alive .
If a breath to show life is shared hen why not the sorrows and the fears ?
When I walk to feel the sweet Earth beneath my feet and pause to know you are feeling her too , then we are connected .
If a chance meeting with a song from a bird so close on the branch that the smile overtakes me so that I think of you .
When given the chance to see how compassion has brought new light for us all to see
then I am free.

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