Скачать или смотреть Robin Kelly

This SoulO is about those precious gems -words, acts, moments etc. -that cut through the noise, chaos and fear.
Mercy:
The torn-winged butterfly
Delicate and barely alive
The grounded honey-bee
Limping and struggling
Far from its hive
Would suffer a similar fate
Crushed
Within her clenched hand
Or
Trapped
Between foot and land.
Nowhere to hide
From her
Instant
Yet merciful
Act of Insecticide.
That was long ago
For her
But not so
For me.
Today a young featherless sparrow
Dropped from a tree
To her feet
Soon to be cradled
Safely in her lap
Then gently wheeled-away
To her ground-floor
Easy-access
One-bedroom flat.
A safe-haven
For
A lonely heart
Shattered years before her legs and back
A wayward skidding truck
No match
For
An uncle’s vile
And velvet touch.
Now
Behind locked doors
From her morphined syringe
Pure water would leak
Drop by drop
Into the tiny gasping beak.
Then
She watched and waited
And she waited and prayed
Till the young bird
Breathed its last breath
Saved to be sure
From a fate
Worse
Than death.

(c) Robin Kelly 2021