The Rice Grain (A poem)

Rice grains chewed

passed to the stomach

But

One grain falls out

Amh! Only one!
And it goes unnoticed
But imagine the work
behind it
The ploughing
Sowing
Taking care
Oh! the reaping
Loading in trucks
to the city
the walk to the grocers
and back with the burden
and finally the cooking
and all that waste!