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Should I thank you for being ungrateful?

But it taught me to be kind

To receive that which was given to me 

With thanksgiving 

I savoured meal after meal 

In the light of your ingratitude 

Do you taste the strife to please

In what you’re served 

Oh but how can you 

When it tastes so sweet 

When the effort is immaculate

Cooked to perfection 

In our unawareness

We’ll cease to forget 

That we’re the ones who hunger and thirst 

After that which is not ours 

Which we did not work for 

Together we’ll try three times a day 

Some days maybe even more 

To hold back a word of appreciation 

Or a word of thankfulness 

Not because we don’t have the time 

Or because we have too much on our minds 

Or the fact we’ve lost our appetites

But because we’ve forgotten 

We are strengthened 

We are nourished 

Our hearts are full 

Yet so empty