A New Eucharist                                

Ananta Kumar Giri

         I 

Anna,

Anna is Our Mother

Food is Our Mother

Our Bhumi and Bhuma—Ground and the Beyond

Anna is Brahma--Food is God

Ground is Our Mother

Brahma is Our Mother

God is Our Mother 

                                       II 

Around and In front our Mother

We Invoke Anna

Offer Food to Our Body and Soul

The Yagna of Our Lives

Food Becomes the Flame of Life

Flame of Energy

Flame of Aspiration

We eat together

Whatever we have

We share

If not enough on the plate

Share the pang together 

                                    III 

Oh Friends

You Speak So Much

Write So Much

About Poverty and Hunger

But Have you Ever

Experienced the Pangs of Hunger

Have you Ever Shared Food

From Your Hungry Plate

Have you Eaten Together

And Have Realized

Anna is Our Mother

Food is Our Mother 

                                       IV 

Oh Traveller

You told

Anna is our Mother

It opened my doors and horizons

Food is Our Mother

This is also the root of our religion

We should eat together

In the public space

All together

Jew or Gentile

But this Supper is not the Last Supper

This is only the beginning

Eating Together: One and Many

This Time of Ours

Calls with Shaky Fingers

For a New Eucharist

A New Langar

A New Umma, A New Jammat

A New Yajna

Of Soul and Co-Soul

Anna and Brahma

Society and Cosmos

Ground and Beyond