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...