Bread Day

Today is bread day.
The church doors are open
and we will pray
and wait for the bread to come
like mana from the sky
in the days of Moses
except on a truck
and it is day-old and older.
People think nothing of it.
They scheme for cakes and pastries,
rushing to the tables.
They think like thieves
with appetites for sweets
to fill their bellies.
Then there is the bread,
overlooked and tossed aside like chaff,
but that would nourish more
than the richest dessert.