Fed on heavy bread <br />Of incalculable ill-treatment... <br />Taking on silence - <br />Not defending Self... <br />Drinking the Cup <br />Of unpalatable accusations, <br />Relentless molestations... <br />Lowly Taker of the pitiless darts <br />Of spiteful ridicule, jealousy... <br />And distrustful leprosy... <br /> <br />Am I earnest to greet <br />At His bloody Feet? <br /> <br />Fed on heavy bread <br />Of glacial oblivion <br />Sufferer victimized... <br />Brutalized, barbarized... <br />Still, as an outsider rejected, <br />Insistently re-victimized... <br />Mercilessly unrecognized... <br />Day by day omitted, mistreated, <br />Overlooked and minimized... <br />Eagerly turning the other cheek... <br /> <br />What else shall time breed? <br />Hanging to His pierced Feet... <br /> <br />Fed on heavy bread <br />Day by day despised <br />Woefully persecuted <br />And marginalized <br />The Savior <br />Of humankind <br />Undisguised...<br /><br />Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/abasement-unchallenged/
