Fed on heavy bread

Of incalculable ill-treatment...

Taking on silence -

Not defending Self...

Drinking the Cup

Of unpalatable accusations,

Relentless molestations...

Lowly Taker of the pitiless darts

Of spiteful ridicule, jealousy

And distrustful leprosy...

Am I earnest to greet

At His Bloody Feet?

Fed on heavy bread

Of glacial oblivion

Sufferer victimized...

Brutalized, barbarized...

Still, as an outsider rejected,

Insistently re-victimized...

Mercilessly unrecognized...

Day by day omitted, mistreated,

Overlooked and minimized...

Eagerly turning the other cheek...

What else shall time breed?

Hanging to His Pierced Feet...

Fed on heavy bread

Day by day despised

Woefully persecuted

And marginalized

The Savior

Of humankind

Undisguised...