Apr 9, 2013 Uncategorized

This is my second Poem-Response to “Pigeon” (film by Anthony Green)

Slingshot

©By Vijaya Sundaram

April 9^th, 2013

Poor, poor bird,

Alone in the world

At the mercy of boys

With slingshots.

 

Just there,

Nowhere else to go

Nothing else to do

But just be and peck

At crumbs of mercy

Tossed its way.

Every crumb matters

Every gesture burns

As a brand in the dark.

Every act of goodness

Lasts an eternity.

 

Though the cruel day

Comes, hell-bent on

Exposure and betrayal,

Each kindness leaves

A trace.

 

And the bird survives for

Another day, another hour.

Though cruelty

Dogs its steps.

 

Every kindness brings

Life.

Every saving brings

Hope.

Every crumb brings

Fullness.

 

And somewhere,

In another world

In another time,

Those traces will come

To live and glow

Through eternity.

 

And life will take wing

In the light of peace.

And only goodness will

People that world, with

No slingshots in sight.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The End~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Tags: #Hope, #kindness, #NaPoWriMo, #Original Poetry, #Peace, fullness, Saving, Slingshot