Our Daily Bread

We need to be aware of work is takes 
to make a loaf of bread.

There is the farmer 
who raised and harvested the grain;

to the miller who ground the grain into flour
and shipped the flour to the baker

who made the flour into dough, 
put dough in loaf pans and let it rise,
then baked in loaves

and took it to the grocer
who wrapped the bread in paper
and so was sold:

a story old, 
but, nevertheless, remembered,
but does not end there.

Who is it provided the yeast
and gas or electricity for heat?
Who built the stoves,
the tractors, the harvesters, and trucks?

Who supplied the shelves and the paper
or dug the ore
from which machinery was made?

And the people who facilitate delivery
and provide the cash,
metal and paper, for the sale.

The value of bread is in the labor,
since in the end,
the value of bread lies in the labor
or we cannot eat.