Poems by
Kamar Sultana Sheik

Mercy

a poem by Kamar Sultana Sheik

What is Mercy?

Mercy is when
The loudly cawing crows
Surrounding their prone
Half-alive group member
Did not
Peck him to death
With stinging mean pecks
As is the Crow Custom
But dispersed and flew away
Leaving him alone
To die in peace in the Night.