Hunger

I come among the peoples like a shadow. I sit down by each man's side. None sees me, but they look on one another, And know that I am there. My silence is like the silence of the tide That buries the playground of children; Like the deepening of frost in the slow night, When birds are dead in the morning. Armies trample, invade, destroy, With guns roaring from earth and air. I am more terrible than armies, I am more feared than the cannon. Kings and chancellors give commands; I give no command to any; But I am listened to more than kings And more than passionate orators. I unswear words, and undo deeds. Naked things know me. I am first and last to be felt of the living. I am Hunger