I gave a homeless man
a calorie bar.
The stars above the seas have wandered far
from days and nights
when men would leave their lands
of burning sands
and fight
for food and home.
Now alone and thin as bone,
the homeless man sits
with cardboard sign,
his face an invisible sign
that we have not come far
from our savage days of need.
The single thing man will not fight
is greed.
