Patient Hunger

Why are you still teething?

You've chewed all your teeth away

and you won't let them grow back.

Every time you start strong as bone 

but you rip out the marrow and it falls

and they fall

and they fall.

You crave all the sugar sweet.

You never get full

and you always get hungrier

and you always get hungrier. 

You pick up anything you can find 

and never once 

and never once 

is it food.

Why are you still teething?

The food will come.

The promised is coming 

and the promise is coming

and the promise always comes 

because Daddy is not a liar.

So stop chewing,

stop chewing away 

at each empty calorie 

in this junk pile.

Wait.

Wait.

0 wait,

for the meal to come.

Prepare:

Set up the tables and chairs 

and the table cloth,

scrub the dishes,

shine the silverware,

lay the napkins,

light the candles,

because before those candles are out 

the meal will come.

The meal will come. 

But you must stop teething, 

you must start preparing, 

you must let go of all these empty things.

They're not food.

They are not good.

They will always make you hungrier.

Why are you still teething 

when Daddy has promised so much?