The Other Poems
True Bread

You shall, dear man, be tempted, also led,
along the fields where all God's grain has grown
before you reach the wilderness, the stone,
when you have neither worked nor begged for bread.
Then pray you falter not in faith instead
of boldly asking God before His throne
to give according to His grace alone.
Do not lay hands upon a stone for bread.
Give thanks for hunger when you have been led
into that wilderness with God alone.
For then you shall be tempted with the stone.
Where ravens flutter till you have been fed,
where angels minister that hidden bread,
give thanks for food, for water, for the stone.
What Man cannot provide you, God alone
provides from heaven, in His Son, true bread.
~ by Michael Rew / Email: witness@psonnets.org