What’s On The Table

While a table of food can draw us together,

As we celebrate the seasons of life,

The food on that table makes a statement

About who’s about  to enjoy its contents.

                                                           Same table, same occasion

                                                           Different people, with different income,

                                                           Different people, from different countries,

                                                           And the food on the table looks very different.

Food that draws us as a community

Now divides us

What’s on the table now . . .

Labels us . . . .

                                                                The have’s or the have’s not,

                                                                The urban or the rural,

                                                                The develop or the developing,

                                                                The thriving or the surviving.

Food! With the power to unite,

Divides and destroys

Humanity with the grip of greed,

Taking whatever it can.

                                                       

                                                             Nothing shows the divide between people,

                                                             More than the food they put on the table,  

                                                             A snap photo of a dinner table

                                                             Paints the perfect picture of those about to eat it! 

What’s on the table at your place tonight?

And what will it tell me about you?

Poem by Debbie Chilton Copyright (#BAD 11) 2011

Photos by Greenpeace used with permission for world blog action day