The germ of an idea came to me <br />Watching a botanist on my TV <br />He said a species could be recognized <br />as great by how much world it colonized <br />So though we think it's just a thing we eat <br />We're actually working for THE WHEAT! <br /> <br />Planting it, growing it <br />Reaping it, sowing it <br />Eating our fill <br />Doing ITS will <br /> <br />The mighty human species (what a pass!) <br />Brought to its knees by stalks of hairy grass <br />And when you think about it (use your loaf) <br />Which is the genius and which the oaf: <br />- Smug golden acres waving as they grow? <br />- Or we who make the earth a place of woe? <br /> <br />So when we're finished and our kind is dead <br />We'll hand things over to our daily BREAD.<br /><br />Hugh Mitchell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-wheat-shall-inherit/
