Full Barns

FULL BARNS

There is dust across the fields tonight.

The moon shines upon a forgotten plow.

Tomorrow in the dawn nothing changes.

The furrows remain unseeded, unattended.

The crop brought a banner yield at harvest

And the farmer took his rest.

He tore the old ones down and built anew.

Big sturdy silos and heavy wooded stalls

To hold all the grain and produce

Through the year and seasons to come.

He planned a banquet every day

And drank wine the very best.

He worked the summer long in the heat and dry,

Plowing in the spring and weeding through

Until the corn grew tall, the apples sweet,

For the cool crisp autumn harvest where

He took in his bounty of the labor.

And tore the old ones down and built anew.

“I’ll grow fat now”, was his jest.

So he filled the cribs to the breaking point,

He stacked the fruit up to the ceiling

And scattered wheat across the threshing floor.

“I’ll live a life of ease and merriment,”

And with that cry he challenged God.

Now these wait full for the burrower and thief,

Fine food to feed the pests.

2012