Chapter Six : Hunger

This is what l know! Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and 40 nights whilst me and my daughter tapped out in a few hours! You see hunger has its own tune,a serenade that blurbs a melodius and unpleasantly fowl air of internal need! Sometimes it comes out as a mere puff or a loud stomach growl but when it comes out accompanied by a voice that tells you "dad l am hungry" then a whole new level has kicked in! We stayed roughly 1 day and some few hours without food before we eventually gave in to the flesh. I begged, l tricked and scolded her trying to encourage her to soldier on and ignore the hunger but who was l kidding? Everytime l tried something new to kill time and shift her focus to something else,my own stomach betrayed me with an earthquake of a growl! There was no food, no edible insect or fruit to eat but only poisonous shrubs and grass! What an irony isn't it? The sheperd had become the sheep and hunger the staff to struck the sheep inorder to gobble up the shrubs!