Deep Hunger

A Lenten Poem after Matthew 4:1-11

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Deep Hunger
After Matthew 4:1-11

There is a deep hunger
beneath my frame.

I silence it with
this and that—
things within reach of
these hands that grasp.

How callous I’ve become.
Like a tunneling candle,
I hardly notice the flame.

But now I see Jesus.

The One who allows
deep hunger's growl.
Instead of quieting it,
Jesus lifts it to the Light.

I want to be like Jesus.
I want to be like Jesus.

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